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It seems like the power structure would want to keep things going as they are now: more production, more consumption. Human-induced climate change instead would
by UweSchmidt 7y ago
It seems like the power structure would want to keep things going as they are now: more production, more consumption. Human-induced climate change instead would prompt fundamental changes which might threaten the current power structure. Furthermore, many environmentalist concepts seem to be bottom-up, local, and independent, not authoritarian.
Even if climate change was not man-made, the effects are already so drastic that we would have to man-make the climate, to offset whatever other forces are threatening life in many areas of the planet.
- newvoiceoldphne 7y agoOr just do what we do best: adapt and overcome
- ianai 7y agoThe last time global temperatures averaged 4 degrees higher there were palm trees at the arctic. At 8 degrees, clouds no longer form. Some estimates have us headed for the 3.2-3.5 range as an optimistic outcome. (Uninhabitable Earth)
- briantakita 7y agoThe climate is getting colder & the Antarctic glaciers are growing, so no worries about palm trees in Antarctica. We will have lower food production (there goes the "green revolution"), more volcanic eruptions, more earthquakes, a magnetic pole reversal, with a weakened Heliosphere & Magnetosphere making us less protected against space weather though, so at least you will have that to be alarmed about. BTW, ancient people around the world had some interesting & consistent art that looks strikingly like plasma discharge reproduced in laboratories. Maybe they were smarter than what we give them credit for?