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New climate report confirms Arctic melt accelerating, sharply raises sea level rise projection

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elizajane5/03/2011 9:48:16 am PDT

re: #1 Obdicut

Absolute fucking disaster.

Oh god I hope people wake up to this.

Or our children are going to starve.

It won’t be our children actually starving. It will be children in already vulnerable places: sub-Saharan Africa. South Asia. Places that are completely susceptible to small climate shifts, or depend on glacier water, or where populations are concentrated in low coastal areas. Our children will be confronted with their culture’s responsibility for far-away disasters, and for helping the victims. Will they be up to that? Or will they keep denying it’s their fault, and spend their time worrying about relatively trivial issues at home? Will they be generous, or completely selfish, more worried about the price of gas here than mass starvation there?

In other words, will our children be more decent human beings than their parents?
Not, I fear, if the Right keeps dragging our culture in their direction.