re: #154 Simply Sarah

I have to say, LVQ, that I hope you’re terribly, terribly wrong about all this. I say that because if you’re not, well, I fear civilization, if not humanity in general, is already doomed. It just seems impossible that humanity, as we currently stand, will be able to get past its collective short sightedness soon enough to stop a worst case situation from occurring.

We have about ten years to start taking real action. If we do we can limit the world to three or four degrees in the coming centuries. It will be a hard life, but not one that collapses everything.

If we wait 20 or 30 years to take serious action, and our present emission rates keep going as they are, then we are doomed as a civilization. Game over. Done. Doomed. End of America and Western Civilization as we know it. Billions dead. New dark ages. Done. Starving bandits will prey on the weak who scrabble in the blasted ruins of the past.