"...let's recap. Five myths: We don't know if the earth is warming or, if so, why. If it is warming, don't worry - climate change will do us more good than harm. With all this uncertainty, we just don't know enough to act. We can't afford to act. And even if we could, people will never be motivated enough to tackle a problem so big and so complex. And five realities: The earth is warming, largely because of human activity. In the long run, any benefits from warming will be far outweighed by the costs. There are plenty of reasons to start acting right now - and uncertainty is one of them. The companies that understand this are demonstrating that we can afford to do it. And people are in fact beginning to act - internationally, in statehouses, in corporate boardrooms, and maybe even in the U.S. Congress."
If you are interested in these issues at all, please read this excellent summary (link here or above) from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. I hate to get on a soapbox, but this really is life and death: I urge you to take some action both at a personal and a political level. We are playing with forces we have barely begun to understand, complex systems that evolved slowly over centuries if not millenia. We truly know not what we do. If not for your sake, for your children's sake, for future generation's sake, so they don't look back at these days and say, to quote Kyle from South Park: "You bastards!"
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