politicked off 02

Global warming is inevitable. The average Joe Blow is under the impression that when he gets solar panels, an electric car, and uses fabric grocery bags; and everyone else follows suit, that global warming will stop the next minute. In actuality, it will stop in the next century. Why then, is all of the attention applied to energy?

If the predictions are correct, then cities will flood, croplands will be obliterated, and countless other humanitarian crises will occur. Are we doing anything about that? In addition to talking about what people in your nearby city will drive to work, we ought to be talking about what they need to do to cool their apartment in the summer so they don’t stroke. We ought to be talking about how to protect, or evacuate, cities that will flood.

My fear is that when these things occur, we will all look at it and say “yep, humanity fucked up. At least now we have things right”. No, humanity has still fucked up if we are not addressing every facet of the multi-faceted crisis of global warming.