Re: dire words from IPCC
On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
As Dwayne points out, nothing we do now will prevent a huge climactic change. If you are interested in the next generation you damn well better give primary attention to building social relations that can survive with some decency in that world. This is not fatalism. Your position amounts to trying to solve Katrina by dipping out the water with a thimble.
My position is that we’ve got to do something to mitigate what’s
likely to happen, and at the same time radically cut greenhouse gas
emissions in the coming decades. I don’t understand how that’s
thimble-like. I’ve actually done a fair amount of research (reading
and interviews) on this topic, so I’m not just making stuff up. If
you think that we can’t do what’s necessary without smashing
capitalism, then you’re living in a fantasy land, because we don’t
have that much time.
Doug