Monday, September 21, 2009
Hey kids, it ain't easy being green
...There is not, now, much value in arguing about the science of climate change. Even if it's wrong, enough people now believe it that it may as well be right. The winds are blowing so strongly that even The Australian only mentions it in passing when Mojib Latif, a leading author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells a conference that the world will probably cool for the next decade.
And a lot of solutions proposed by climate affirmers are potentially beneficial, regardless of motive. The world is living beyond its means. It would be good to have less muck in the air. Oil won't last forever, and it would be pleasant to have an alternative sooner rather than later...