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laodan rated 8 months ago- Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped via KurzweilAI, in Foreign Policy by Paul J. Saunders, Vaughan Turekian
Environmental advocates have finally managed to put the issue of global warming at the top of the world\u2019s agenda. But the scientific, economic, and political realities may mean that their efforts are too little, too late. A realistic look at climate change suggests that it is time to change the debate. In 2005, a paper published by the U.N. Environment Program put average global economic losses due to \u201cgreat weather disasters\u201d at $100 billion per year, and projected that it was increasing at about 6 percent per year\u2014enough to double every twelve years, and to total $2 trillion for the period from 2007 to 2020. Policy makers in the United States and elsewhere must start hedging their bets and prepare us to live in this new world. Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped I have been advocating the use of alternative energy sources to fossil ones since the mid seventies and I have also witnessed first hand China's entry into modernity from 1986 to 2002. The understanding that I developed along my road is that modernity has been indoctrinating all of us to blindly follow the god-like logic of capital. Modernity is not rational as its apologists would like us to believe. Or to be more accurate its rationality resides within the working of capital and not within the minds of the individuals and societies. We thus follow capital's logic and not the reason of our minds. Coming back to climate change we should be aware that it is one among a series of side-effects that modernity is unleashing against the principle of life. Climate change + extinction of living species + poisoning of water and air + societal atomization + globalization are interacting among themselves and plunging us all in a maelstrom of environmental and societal changes whose outcomes are unknown. The singularity of our present times is that we just can't any longer even imagine what is coming our way. So what now? I guess that it simply is too late to change the course of humanity. But nature shall have the last say and will eventually re-balance the environment and human societies while erasing modernity...
- Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped via KurzweilAI, in Foreign Policy by Paul J. Saunders, Vaughan Turekian
- Anndaluz rated 8 months ago
- This won't do. First we have a section of the American elite denying the reality of climate change. Now they've lost the argument we get another load of people (or the same ones?) saying its too late to stop now. Most of the article identifies, correctly as far as I know, tremendous difficulties in taking effective steps to reduce emissions and/or their affects. These constraints seem to be underpinned by a market economy. Some (mainly rich) people may prefer to see the world go to hell before the sacred institution of the market is tampered with. Count me out.
