tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6218335174215564249..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Why Blockadia MattersThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77798454346867134652014-11-28T09:32:10.975-08:002014-11-28T09:32:10.975-08:00I've been mulling a metaphor . . . well, a sim...I've been mulling a metaphor . . . well, a simile really. Climate change is like sticking a knife in someone's back. In this case, in humanity's collective back.<br />We're in mid-stab. So far, the knife is in a few millimetres and people can look at the floods and the droughts and stuff, and say "Well, it's only a flesh wound. Some blood, but nothing serious happening here". But the impetus is still pushing it in. It's going to be travelling another few millimetres even if you shoot the knife-wielder right now.<br /><br />Meanwhile something like the Kinder Morgan pipeline may only push the knife in another millimetre. And Northern Gateway, another millimetre, and Keystone or Eastern Whatsit a millimetre or two each, and so on for all the other fossil fuel expansions or stupid government decisions not to build alternatives. But a millimetre here and a millimetre there and pretty soon you're not in flesh wound territory any more, you've slipped between ribs and you're hitting liver and lungs.<br /><br />We need to take the knife away from the Richard Kinders of the world before they backstab us any deeper.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.com