After having attended the Wallace Stegner symposium on Friday and Saturday global warming is on our mind of course. We ran across this video yesterday The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See. The videographer makes a great argument for action, "When faced with uncertainty about our future," choose to act to prevent further climate change, "because the risk of inaction far outweighs the risk of taking action."
During yesterday's session we heard from Randy Udall that the world economy may tank, due to us running out of cheap hydrocarbon energy, long before runaway heating plunges us into economic and survival chaos. He takes issue with the contention that we'll be able to continue pumping oil and mining coal for decade after decade as is shown in most climate models. He's arguing for a sensible energy policy of course, one that moves the world economy away from fossil fuels, coincidentally one that will curtail warming.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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