The challenge we face, those of us who accept the discoveries of science wrt climate, is convincing our civilization to act on the knowledge.

A few weeks ago I was posting several news items from the CITES conference. That too is a UN convention, to which nearly all nations belong, set up to protect endangered species.

As the news stories recount, the CITES meeting proved a disaster for those nations who wanted to protect any marine species. There were just too many other nations who want to exclude all and many marine species from being included in CITES. The leaders of this group were the East Asian nations who, frankly, can buy all the third world votes they need to see that their agenda holds.

So, if we as a set of world governments can’t act on something so tangible as food supply reduction from over-fishing, what can give us hope that we can act on something as big scale, and long term, as global warming?

Should I just turn into a doomer and be done with it?