Maxwell, Dotson, who’s an “Activist, entrepreneur, millennial”, is totally concerned with Hotcoldwetdry, and finds it to be a moral issue, writing at the Huffington Post. After the standards whines, like
Throughout the United States, current problems and future concerns include droughts (like the current conditions in California), heat-waves, rising sea levels, floods (like the tragic flooding in Texas), increases in both the size and intensity of storms (think more Superstorm Sandys) among others. (see? Hotcoldwetdry!)
we get
We must call climate change what it is — a demanding, demurring moral question. While the calculus for effectively weighing this question is nebulous at best, the necessity of action is clear. The current state, according to Stephen Gardiner of Washington University, a leading voice in the discussion, is a “perfect moral storm” where a convergence of extenuating factors, incentive misalignments and environmental realities creates a system our current ethical and governmental structures are powerless to address.
If it’s so moral, why are Cult Of Climastrology members not making changes in their own lives?
Teach “war mists” have not only made changes in their own lives they have made YOU make changes in your life by doing things like changing to CFLs
Warmists like the US Navy have been moving towards a green fleet
Warmists like the Rockerfeller Foundation have divested from fossil fuels. Yes the Guardian also expects to be fully divested in less than 2 years.
Only fringe “warmists” expect everyone to go carbon neutral immediately, but if nutpicking the fringe is easier than disparaging moderate warmists (like the US Navy or the state of Israel) well go for it
First, let’s all admit that the whiny, entitled, hubristic “millenials” that we’ve created are just horrible, and hard painful to read, much less listen to.
And can anyone explain to me what “demurring” means in this context.
That said, the Earth continues to warm from CO2 we keep adding to the atmosphere. This warmer Earth is and will continue to present human civilization with more and more problems – added to the problems we have aside from global warming.
Global warming, wealth inequality and poverty, violent crazies, willful ignorance are our biggest challenges… in no particular order.
Jeffrey wrote:
And yet the policies you advocate to deal with global warming are policies which would increase wealth inequality and poverty. When you advocate making fossil fuel energy sources more expensive, to force the adoption of technologies not yet ready to produce the amounts of power we need, you are advocating taking money from poor people.
You can’t be unaware of this, because we have pointed it out to you, many times.
Dana,
I’m aware of your claims, it’s just that you have been wrong many, many times.
We’re smart enough to lessen the impact on the poor. Like almost every Denier argument, yours is not persuasive.