Climate Cliff
Posted by turdslinger on December 17th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
My vision for climate change repair is also cliff-based. If we can’t fix it at the last minute, we can’t fix it.
Collaberatively, as a species, we’re just that horrible.
I don’t just think this because Copenhagen is failing to do anything more than find creative ways to provide limousines. The more countries involved in something, the more likely any resulting efforts will be token.
At best, countries don’t agree to do things but to agree to agree to do things. At worst, they don’t even do that, and that’s where we are with the most important issue in the history of humanity (maybe nuclear proliferation is up there).
Also, it’s probably too late, but some rebranding has to be in order. “Global warming,” “climate change,” neither sounds especially bad if it’s the only thing you know about the issue. We should start calling it “global devastation.” If all the world leaders left a conference to solve “global devastation” with nothing accomplished, it would look a lot worse than leaving a conference aiming to prevent the temperature from changing a bit.
