I honestly believe there are 1000 paths to safety, that there only a few to dangerous climate change, but that we will take a path to dangerous climate change. Because it is easier. It requires not making hard choices. It requires not working together. It requires less sacrifice. It will be the path of human nature and behavioral inertia.
“So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?”
We are going to have to explain to later generations why we thought the 6th great extinction was an appropriate price to pay for having elaborate, throw-away Halloween lawn decorations which were made by and the most costly to the most vulnerable citizens of the planet.
“So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?”
We are going to have to explain to later generations why we thought the 6th great extinction was an appropriate price to pay for having elaborate, throw-away Halloween lawn decorations which were made by and the most costly to the most vulnerable citizens of the planet.
I don’t say any of that lightly.