It's official, folks! Yes, corporate sponsored mainstream media has announced that climate change is real! Read all about it! (Sarcasm)
While they do a good job of describing what is happening...
Even if the world went carbon-neutral tomorrow, we’d be in for more: because of the CO2 that has already been emitted, we’re on track for another 5 degrees of warming. Batten down the hatches. “You can no longer say that the climate of the future is going to be like the climate of today, let alone yesterday,” says Judi Greenwald, vice president of innovative solutions at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “In all of the plausible climate scenarios, we are going to have to change the way we do things in ways we can’t even predict.”...the emphasis of the article is clear that climate-caused devastation is the "new normal", and we had better learn how to adapt. They even pose as severe critics of Big Oil and Big Coal.
So what lies behind America’s resistance to action? Economist Sachs points to the lobbying power of industries that resist acknowledgment of climate change’s impact. “The country is two decades behind in taking action because both parties are in thrall to Big Oil and Big Coal,” says Sachs. “The airwaves are filled with corporate-financed climate misinformation.” But the vanguard of action isn’t waiting any longer. This week, representatives from an estimated 100 cities are meeting in Bonn, Germany, for the 2nd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change. The theme is “Resilient Cities.” As Joplin, Mo., learned in the most tragic way possible, against some impacts of climate change, man’s puny efforts are futile. But time is getting short, and the stakes are high. Says Daniel Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University: “Not to adapt is to consign millions of people to death and disruption.”I find this a bit much! For years and years they have been telling us that there are two sides to the argument about climate change, and anyway, more research is needed. Then they went on to tell us to concern ourselves only with buying low energy bulbs and appliances and hybrid cars.
Forget about renewable energy and forget about living simpler--learn to adapt! We must keep feeding the profit addiction of the ruling class! It's capitalism über alles!
God, this article is making my head hurt!
