@snoopydawg You know what? Fuck the Paris Accords. A load of inadequate garbage.

There, I said it.

This can't be said enough. And people aren't kidding when they say that. This is going to happen unless countries get serious about dealing with climate change and stop the wars which are the biggest contributors of it. Bottom line. We can do our part, but it's not going to be enough until the military does its part.

Let me tell you about why I woke up crying today. It has to do with just how close we are to full-blown climate disaster. I was thinking about children who are already experiencing the horrible consequences of global warming, and I was thinking about particular children I love and what’s in store for them. Most of all, I was thinking about the unthinkable: that we are on the verge of ensuring that most, if not all, life on Earth will be snuffed out.

Everyone should be tossing and turning in their beds unable to sleep, experiencing the raw emotions that led me to tears this morning.

This is not a joke, or a drill. This is it. Decision-point for humankind. The UN says we have to turn things around within 12 years to avoid catastrophe. Others give us even less time.

The article debunks the Obama myth that he tackled climate change during his tenure. He didn't. He didn't even come close to doing what was needed. The Paris accords were weak to begin with and everyone said so after the leaders climbed back on their planes and went home. Why the Empty Suit gets so much credit for doing nothing on so many important issues boggles my mind.

Hillary flew around the globe pushing for more and more countries to start or increase fracking. Trump got lots of sh*t for pulling out of the accords, but people refused to see what Hillary did during her tenure as SOS.

@ovals49

That’s precisely what we need to work on changing. We need to embrace socialistic solutions, not double down with Capitalism on steroids. Continuing with tepid incrementalism ensures that our mad rush toward Climate Armageddon will be successful.

And believe me, Americans LOVE bootlicking. They'll keep doing it even after they're dead.

to work altruistically for the good of all. As Nancy Pelosi so clearly stated “We are a Capitalist country.”

That’s precisely what we need to work on changing. We need to embrace socialistic solutions, not double down with Capitalism on steroids. Continuing with tepid incrementalism ensures that our mad rush toward Climate Armageddon will be successful.

@Big Al an angel gets his wings...no, wait.....it sends a thrill up my leg.....no(yes!!!)....just tell then to eat shit and die, but in a nice sort of way. Oligarchy is an ok word. I mean people write Pelosi and Clinton without gagging. Well, maybe a little.

this blog, so I won't. The final line in the CP essay,

"When we no longer cede the reins and our wealth to the few, we, the many, will find our way forward."

Ya, guess so. Too bad very few want to talk about how to do that other than thru elections. I suppose it's useless.

@The Wizard It's not a sacrifice. How in the hell could it be a sacrifice when you're trying to save yourself from death?

We have gone from a stable Epoch of 11,600 years, the Holocene, where average temperatures were +/- 1 deg C. This supported the growth of agriculture and human civilization. We are now in a transition state, the Anthropocene. The factors that made the Holocene stable are degraded or destroyed, including the forests, sequestered carbon, ice cover, etc. We don't know where the Anthropocene will take us, that is, where is the next stable state (epoch)? You have to ask yourself these questions:
- When will temperature increases stop or reverse?
- When will CO2 levels stop climbing and when will they be stable?
- When does global ice stop melting and reform?
- When does sea level rise stop?
- When does ocean acidification stop and reverse?

The answers to these questions do not exist. The real question is what does the next geological epoch look like and how does any life survive the transition, considering the unprecedented speed?

The carbon in the ground, sequestered by life over a very long time, was part of the state of the planet. The forests were an important part of homeostasis, that is, controlling Earth's thermostat. We had no business extracting sequestered carbon and we had no right to exhaust the products of combustion into the atmosphere. But, being people, we did it because it was the cheapest way to achieve the material wealth that we desired.

The killer, literally, is going to be repeated agricultural failures because of increased temperatures and chaotic climate. This food yield curve will cross the human population curve at some point and that will be the beginning of the end.

If you want to fix the problem we need to make major breakthroughs in two areas - 1) All carbon free energy sources, and 2) Sequester all of the excess carbon in the atmosphere above the 270-280 ppm of the pre-industrial Holocene epoch. We also need to figure out how to restore the great forests and grow food on a lot less land. Part 2 will cost about $50 Trillion dollars, about one half of global GDP. Practically speaking you would do this over some period of time, say 10 years. In that case you would need to re-purpose about 5% of global GDP for this, about $5 Trillion per year, or roughly twice the entire military budget of all of the nations of the globe. But you also have to solve problem #1, carbon free energy. I don't have as good a handle on that but I would estimate that it would be in the $20 Trillion dollar range.
It is doable, but you would have to convince the nations of the world to make this level of sacrifice. We are currently in a race. The first factor is the realization that we need to do this and the second is having the means to do it. If we are deep into global civilizational failure, then the projects needed to save civilization will not be possible.

My opinion is that we do have one last chance to save the climate and civilization, but the effort is far in excess of what anyone is talking about.