An epic struggle is currently taking place that will determine the fate, and perhaps the survival, of our species. It is a collision between natural limits and rational awareness of the need to: respect: those limits, on the one hand, and the forces of blind greed, on the other.
Over the next few years, fundamental questions about who we are as a species really will be answered: Are we fundamentally sane, rational? Or are we a self-destructive failure that will end in the evolutionary dustbin?
As former Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry says, the: recent UK floods: “have ended political debate about climate change impacts”. Indeed, recent global weather extremes suggest that something of “enormous magnitude is happening”. […]
As NASA climate scientist James Hansen has: suggested,Nuremberg-style trials must be held for senior corporate (including corporate media) and political executives responsible for crimes against humanity and planet that almost defy belief. They must be: held to account: for their crimes.
But much more importantly, of course, we must act — now — to save ourselves from utter disaster.
These are a special kind of nut job. : When I meet people like this, I feel like Brad Pitt talking to John Doe:
You know I’m right. Only someone completely off their nut could look at the lack of warming and say, “We need to punish someone for global warming.”