As much as I respect the young activist for her passion, her message that we should simply "listen to Scientists" is problematic. While they may have consensus that Climate Destabilization is happening, they have no coherent plan to combat it. Saying "reduce carbon emissions" to our current political establishment is basically shouting into the void. We've built this consumptive and polluting extinction machine, and nobody is organizing to destroy it...we may want it gone...but nobody is ACTUALLY organizing a step by step plan to dismantle it, and that is why we'll die if RADICAL change does not occur. Our inability to address population explosion, out inability to focus on anything but "economic progress," our selfish culture that prevents us from working together...we need a complete overhaul of civilization. In the United States the "progressives" are the only ones even approaching the first baby steps towards the change we need...while politically they may be branded as "radical," they are vanilla apple pie. I appreciate their work, but we need to be even more radical. This is a Global problem, but how do you convince a billion of the most comfortable people on the planet to completely change the system that they are at the top of? It's the riddle of our time.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair The truth abo...
If you are reading this, you are probably old enough to have "seen" the end of the Great Barrier Reef. No really, think about it.....