re: #160 Simply Sarah

I’m not really optimistic. We are, for the most part, utterly terrible at evaluating future risk, especially when it seems abstract and distant. Especially with how successful anti-science propaganda has been in the U.S., as well as other parts of the world, and the fact that people don’t want to give up luxuries or goodies they have now (Or want to get) in order to protect the planet from a ‘future’ threat that they can easily refuse to see.

Sure, once things get bad, most people will want to do something, but it’ll be way too late by then.

That of course, is my nightmare, and the nightmare of most of my colleagues. Everyday, we look at the data and the numbers on this and it gets worse and worse and worse. There is no happy outcome from business as usual.

I mostly blame Fox, and Koch funded propaganda for setting back awareness of this problem by 20 years.

Afterall, it was Thatcher who was the first major politician to address the issue back in 1989.

But, no matter what the lies of the propagandists we have exactly one one chance to fix this and start fixing it now. Failure is not an option. Look at it like Han taking the Millennium Falcon into that asteroid belt. Don’t tell me the odds, because whatever they are, they are what we have and that is it.

Get aware. Fight hard.