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 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: Climate Change Denial - by George Monbiot |
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Cyberspace has buried its head in a cesspit of climate change gibberish
The Stansted protesters get it. The politicians of Poznan don't quite. But online, planted deniers drive a blinkered fiction
We all create our own reality, and shut out the voices we do not want to hear. But there is no issue we are less willing to entertain than man-made climate change. Here, three worlds seem to exist in virtual isolation. In the physical world, global warming appears to be spilling over into runaway feedback: the most dangerous situation humankind has ever encountered. In the political world - at the climate talks in Poznan, for instance - our governments seem to be responding to something quite different, a minor nuisance that can be addressed in due course. Only the Plane Stupid protesters who occupied part of Stansted airport yesterday appear to have understood the scale and speed of this crisis. In cyberspace, by contrast, the response spreading fastest and furthest is flat-out denial. |
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Martin
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I fear that we are on the verge of the beginning of the end of life on earth
No politician has the cojones to do what needs to be done - grab the handbrake, floor the clutch, yank the wheel, and do a screaming, rubber burning u-turn.......all we are getting is a little bit of course correcting, a minor touch on the brakes. They have obviously come to the conclusion that either it isn't happening, or more likely that to do what needs to be done would render them unelectable - so the juggernaut of global capitalism carries on gaining speed, heading for the buffers! (that way, they may even win the next election......) 
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pete_inthehills
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| Martin wrote: | | I fear that we are on the verge of the beginning of the end of life on earth |
As a geologist I take the long view on life on earth. Its not the beginning of the end of life on earth. It might be the beginning of the end of Human life or civilisation, but the earth will keep going and life will keep going. Even if its single cells or ants or crocodiles that take over.
There have been loads of mass extinctions where 75% or more of everything on the planet is killed off, but life in some form keeps going. We took advantage of one at the end of the Creatceous 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs were wiped out, but the dinosaurs took advantage of one in the Permian 250 million years ago.
May be what ever inherits the earth from us will take better care of it.
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