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It's also way too late to be banking on "future generations". Every credible report signals that either the adult generation in power today takes immediate acti
by ForHackernews 8y ago
It's also way too late to be banking on "future generations". Every credible report signals that either the adult generation in power today takes immediate action to curb climate change, or the effects will be catastrophic and, in most cases, irreversible. The recent UN report says we need to cut emissions worldwide by 50% by 2030. Your 11 year old child will not fix the climate.
All this warm-fuzzy nonsense about leaving the solution to "future problem solvers" is how we got here.
- shoo 8y agoQuoting Donella Meadows: > The world can respond in three ways to signals that resource use and pollution emissions have gone beyond their sustainable limits. One way is to disguise, deny, or confuse the signals. Generally this takes the form of efforts to shift costs to those who are far away in space and time. > A second way is to alleviate the pressures from limits by employ- ing technical or economic fixes. [...] These approaches, however, will not eliminate the causes of these pressures. > The third way is to work on the underlying causes, to recognize that the socioeconomic system has overshot its limits, is headed toward collapse, and therefore seek to change the structure of the system. Leaving the hard decisions to "future problem solvers" is exactly response #1, "shift costs to those who are far away in space and time", i.e. future generations. http://donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update/ http://donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-grow...