okay. i'll take the if A happens B happens approach.
what will happen in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years and 100 years given the current situation?
i seem to remember reading some scientific articles that suggested that no amount of curbing CO2 emissions to the extent practical and possible would have any significant effect on forces already in motion. unless we are willing to go back to the dark ages without power, transportation, etc. back to a village/cave economy.
i'm not being drawn into the politicized discussion about bush and liberals and noaa and nasa.
as i said earlier. there is little need for scientists to tell us everything is okay. nothing to worry about. nobody employs those scientists. nobody listens to them. nobody trusts them. the premise is that we must assume that things are terribly wrong. self-loathing must be at full boil. we must agree that we have destroyed something and if we do not act to correct it immediately, the end of days will come. that is what sells television. that is what sells newspapers. that is what sells books. that is what gets funding. that is what attracts attention.
that is the motivation.
in this day and age we love to hate ourselves. we love to point at each other and blamestorm over what we think we did wrong.
i'm only trying to live here amidst all this anxiety and it's really beginning to cramp my chakra.
