Okay – call me crazy…

“Even warming of just 2 degrees C would raise sea levels, change agricultural productivity, destroy sensitive species and ecosystems, and alter patterns of disease in challenging ways, the groups acknowledge. Yet because further fossil-fuel use seems politically and economically unavoidable…”

Okay, call me crazy, but doesn’t the rise in sea level, destruction of sensitive plants, etc. seem like a “polically and economically” ridiculous thing to allow to happen?! I don’t understand how we can “choose” (because we are choosing) to not quickly wean ourselves off of fossil fuels JUST because we are not calculating in understandable monetary and political terms the massive badness of climate change. Or the massive goodness inherent in doing things smarter in the long term understanding of the issues at hand.

Here is the link to the full article. I’m a bit PO’d.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=safe-limit-for-global-warming&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_ENGYSUS_20131205

 

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