Reply #107: me too but [View All]

[wial]

I still want to dedicate my life to good, of some kind. It strikes me there's one issue that trumps all others, a tsunami of an issue, a black line on the horizon we can all see but we've been hearing the sirens so long now we consider it just another part of life: climate change. People are governments are too craven to change their ways enough to stop causing it, and the CO2 is already far higher than the Earth can possibly afford. Whatever transformation of society will come far too late. If Gore had been elected he would have given himself a nervous breakdown trying to get the message across. Gandhi tried to tell the Indian people to have less sex and fewer children and we can see how well that worked. Americans live in the blood bath of the slaughter of the buffalo, they have even less hope of achieving moral restraint.

According to the latest predictions, there will be 6 degrees of warming by 2100.

So what to do? If this planet is to make it into the 22nd century as anything other than a nearly lifeless desert, as wrecked as it was from similar causes 250 million years ago, we must find ways to correct the damage to the climate. Herculean geo-engineering projects. Pumping cold from the deep of the ocean to cause plankton blooms. Sulphur in the stratosphere. Sun shields in space. Whatever works, whatever the side effects. Chemotherapy for the planet. All out war on those who will not stop causing the problem, if that can be done without making the problem even worse. No need for outrage, just grim necessity. Cold equations.

Can anyone offer a reason why we should not be doing everything we can now to gather the means to stop climate change, above all else? The only counterargument I've heard is given we got ourselves into this mess, perhaps it's best for the galaxy we suffer the consequences -- but I can't accept that. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light, as someone else said.