tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2660901078064205651..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Don't Get the Idea that Capping Warming at 2C Still Won't HurtThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-66302468601930459682015-01-09T11:52:03.560-08:002015-01-09T11:52:03.560-08:00Ron, I'm very pleased to say that I couldn'...Ron, I'm very pleased to say that I couldn't agree with you more. At some point there has to be some reckoning for those who, in service to nothing more than greed, are so effectively sabotaging any meaningful effort on this looming catastrophe. To me they're akin to the miscreant who shouts "fire" in the packed movie house triggering deadly panic. Their words, too, will have lethal consequences in the years ahead.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-47735440537275417402015-01-09T10:50:32.169-08:002015-01-09T10:50:32.169-08:00I highly recommend watching The Newsroom's sea...I highly recommend watching The Newsroom's season 3. In one episode, a head scientist from the US EPA is interviewed. He goes into great detail about how humanity has blown it and how children now born will feel the full effects in their lifetime. It's a very disturbing scene. <br /><br />I'm currently reading The Bone Clocks (by David Mitchell who also wrote Cloud Atlas.) He details how civilization falls apart due to the effects of global warming.<br /><br />Stuff like this really brings the crisis to life.<br /><br />Read a most disgusting article by Lawrence Solomon in the FP today: "Why fantasies about global warming and other delusions will fare poorly in 2015."<br /><br />In order to save the world we need to unionize the world. Create a direct democracy super-NGO that unites all unions, NGOs and activists. It's goal is to fight for human causes to counter the corrupt corporate lobby that is destroying civilization.<br /><br />But we also need to create an archive the documents people like Solomon and what they were writing around our time. So our descendants will have a good idea of what went down if things go bad. People like Solomon need to be immortalized with the likes of Hitler and Stalin. Need to document their crimes against future generations of humanity!Ron Wallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120060083437508997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-17311845500278490882015-01-08T16:58:49.742-08:002015-01-08T16:58:49.742-08:00Got to think that the upper 0.1% know what is com...Got to think that the upper 0.1% know what is coming and that is why there is a free for all of wealth accumulation right now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81315299390150231322015-01-08T14:51:14.204-08:002015-01-08T14:51:14.204-08:00I expect you're right, Lorne. I suspect that ...I expect you're right, Lorne. I suspect that some of them have thought this through and realize that transitioning to a zero-carbon society will be just the first but irreversible step to a wholesale overhaul of our social, political, economic and industrial modes of organization. The more you delve into climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and such, the more you come to see global warming as a symptom of a greater core problem that can't be avoided. <br /><br />Who has the courage to promote something as radical as a steady-state economy or population control for the emerging economies and the Third World? Yet those issues are as fundamental to curbing climate change impacts as greenhouse gas emission reductions.<br /><br />Our slavish obsession with perpetual, exponential growth in production and consumption is as threatening as carbon emissions ever were. Yet our economic policies, our fiscal policies, our banking and trade policies are cemented to unsustainable growth practices. We've only been able to keep it going through parlour tricks that are now failing us.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12014091641245278412015-01-08T14:32:43.263-08:002015-01-08T14:32:43.263-08:00P.S. In the above comment, obviously 'are'...P.S. In the above comment, obviously 'are' should read 'our.'lLornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-68923168569748499432015-01-08T14:31:26.655-08:002015-01-08T14:31:26.655-08:00Sadly, Mound, both are government 'leaders and...Sadly, Mound, both are government 'leaders and our consumer-citizens will blithely ignore this final warning.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.com