Always amusing how those who attack "feelings," are the same who live by them (as opposed to say... Facts).
Great speech, that ignores the fact that many people are desperately working to bring about change, and being completely ignored, by: the fossil fuel industries, by Conservative, Right Wing politicians (who deny climate change even exists, and if it does, is not man made) and governments by and large, rich and poor. Every few years, these world governments get together, solemnly pledge great things they will accomplish in a few short years, and then proceed to do absolutely... NOTHING.
Meanwhile, Big Oil continues to get subsidized, innovative, clean alternatives continue to get underfunded, and plans for even more climate conventions are made, driving people to the point of near madness where they desperately end up throwing soup on paintings as their elders hasten to mindlessly poison their very future. The ice caps are melting, the permafrost is melting, and glaciers are disappearing wholesale while giant sink holes are appearing in Siberia releasing unprecedented levels of lethal methane. Island nations are disappearing into the Pacific, and storms are more devastating than ever as tornados appear where they never have before; droughts are longer and more severe worldwide, desertification is increasing, and the last ten years are the hottest on record...
Yeah, great speech (uh-huh)- and about as funny as a Republican with a snowball on the Senate floor.
China, India and the USA are the biggest polluters. Canada only contributes 1.5% however our woke Prime Minister is bound and determined to send us back to the stone age to garner favour with his equally rich and woke palls at the G whatever enviro conferences.
ReplyDeleteRemember that scientists as a whole are a pretty low key, conservative (small "c") lot, who generally don't like to scream and shout.
ReplyDeleteWe are now headed past the predicted1.5 degree temp rise as we continue to do what we are now doing... talk and do- Absolutely NOTHING! A more realistic (and in all probability way too conservative still) 2 degree rise is described as "on the threshold of catastrophic."
We may well see a 4 degree rise by century's end- which could, in all likelihood, lead to an uncontrolled cascade of environmental events that could lead to a 5 to 8 degree rise which would make large swaths of the planet literally uninhabitable. And well before the latter would occur, you would have climate migration by the hundreds of millions, as well as: unprecedented wars, civil strife, droughts, famines, floods, etc...
Or as one climate journalist simply and succinctly responded when asked about our future...
"We're fucked!"