This is kind of close to despair: I think nothing serious will be done -- meaning cooperation among major nations -- until something truly catastrophic happens, a climate Hiroshima. And it has to hit where it hurts, not in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where climate-related suffering among the poor and mostly helpless has become commonplace.
Great summary of a vexing problem. We can only grieve over the death in Hawaii and the Sahel and Pakistan and other areas of climate disaster, but the prominence of the disasters perhaps has a silver lining in making the problem more visible and real rather than a future threat. This is not, as some say, the "new normal." Only the beginning of the increasingly dire. So how do we think about it? Despair is not an option.
This is kind of close to despair: I think nothing serious will be done -- meaning cooperation among major nations -- until something truly catastrophic happens, a climate Hiroshima. And it has to hit where it hurts, not in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where climate-related suffering among the poor and mostly helpless has become commonplace.
Aw, shucks.
Thanks for this, Tom. And keep wring such fantastic books!
Thank you. I'll try!
The sky has fallen.
Great summary of a vexing problem. We can only grieve over the death in Hawaii and the Sahel and Pakistan and other areas of climate disaster, but the prominence of the disasters perhaps has a silver lining in making the problem more visible and real rather than a future threat. This is not, as some say, the "new normal." Only the beginning of the increasingly dire. So how do we think about it? Despair is not an option.
Despair is a key emotion in the grieving process. So is denial.
Tom, this is amazing. Thank you.