Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Hansen says "It's crazy to think that 2 degrees Celsius is safe limit"

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Hansen says "It's crazy to think that 2 degrees Celsius is safe limit"

Click here to access article by David Spratt from Climate Code Red.

Spratt has noticed that elites are increasingly advocating normalising policies consistent with 3°C of warming, and wonders about his own sanity.

Because I spend quite a lot of time following climate science closely and trying to understanding its political manifestations and representations, it's easy to feel that I am living in a parallel universe. There is the world of the scientific evidence, that climate change is already dangerous and 2 degrees Celsius (2°C) of warming would be an uncontrollable disaster.