Writer's Block: Planet friendly
Jun. 27th, 2010 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42[Error: unknown template qotd]Pretty concerned. It's never as bad as the worst predictions (see: overpopulation) but it'll still be pretty bad. And the fact that it's (maybe) coinciding with peak oil makes things worse. We're going to start having more problems with producing enough food for everyone.
It's unfortunate that human nature is to wait until it's already a crisis before we start taking the problem seriously. The economic arguments against renewable energy and reduction of carbon emissions are ridiculous. We've built our economy to be so focused on ultra-short-term gains that too many people have lost sight of anything else. That's why the economy crashed and that's why a lot of people still resist even acknowledging that we're altering our environment... "environment" in general usage has become sort of a buzzword that polarizes people as pissed-off-redneck-conservative vs hippie-liberal-douche but it's not about some kind of abstract, one ideology vs another thing, it's about being able to freaking feed ourselves and not be breathing and drinking poison. I don't get how people can support the pro-starving-and-being-poisoned position. They think it'll only happen to poor people but climate change is going to make everybody's lives worse. We could be working a lot harder to mitigate the damage.
I like that the question was posed like this: it's not "do you believe in global warming" any more. It's getting harder to deny the facts in front of us. That's something, at least.
It's unfortunate that human nature is to wait until it's already a crisis before we start taking the problem seriously. The economic arguments against renewable energy and reduction of carbon emissions are ridiculous. We've built our economy to be so focused on ultra-short-term gains that too many people have lost sight of anything else. That's why the economy crashed and that's why a lot of people still resist even acknowledging that we're altering our environment... "environment" in general usage has become sort of a buzzword that polarizes people as pissed-off-redneck-conservative vs hippie-liberal-douche but it's not about some kind of abstract, one ideology vs another thing, it's about being able to freaking feed ourselves and not be breathing and drinking poison. I don't get how people can support the pro-starving-and-being-poisoned position. They think it'll only happen to poor people but climate change is going to make everybody's lives worse. We could be working a lot harder to mitigate the damage.
I like that the question was posed like this: it's not "do you believe in global warming" any more. It's getting harder to deny the facts in front of us. That's something, at least.
