Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
To get the middle class on board with “drastic steps”, the rich and famous will also have to accept “a great deal of material hardship”, and purchasing carbon credits doesn’t qualify as hardship. It looks too much like a wealthy draft protester paying someone else to take his place.
The best that we can realistically expect is “modest steps”. Sorry, but that’s the truth and we all know it.
Hi Tom,
Modest steps is indeed the absolute best I hope for.
It's why I wrote that I expect mankind to do nothing to mitigate the increase in carbon emitted.
Taking the steps required would involve great economic hardship and suffering. It is conceivable we would have to remake the worlds economy.
Not taking the steps required will eventually cause great economic hardships and suffering, possibly to the point of a massive die off. As I mentioned, how this will play out is impossible to predict. What the time period will be and how fast it occurs I wouldn't hazard an opinion. But as Scotty used to say.."Captain, I can't change the laws of physics".
Nature is indifferent to what we wish for.
We are indeed riding the tiger and everything we do, or don't do, has a downside.