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=====The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.===== | |||
[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending?fbclid=IwAR3oT4KhAlJWRAU1yJYP3IuhcRW59LApjHSawFy1bl6Wkk5AR2hsCjYtC_Y The New Yorker Jonathan Franzen 9/08 2019] | |||
Even at this late date, expressions of unrealistic hope continue to abound. Hardly a day seems to pass without my reading that it’s time to “roll up our sleeves” and “save the planet”; that the problem of climate change can be “solved” if we summon the collective will. Although this message was probably still true in 1988, when the science became fully clear, we’ve emitted as much atmospheric carbon in the past thirty years as we did in the previous two centuries of industrialization. The facts have changed, but somehow the message stays the same. | |||
=====The irreconcilable acceptance of near-term extinction===== | =====The irreconcilable acceptance of near-term extinction===== | ||
[https://guymcpherson.com/2013/04/the-irreconcilable-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/ Nature Bats Last 04/18/2013] | [https://guymcpherson.com/2013/04/the-irreconcilable-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/ Nature Bats Last 04/18/2013] | ||
