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Tom Clavin's avatar

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.

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Tom Clavin's avatar

Aw, shucks.

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Clay Knick's avatar

Thanks for this, Tom. And keep wring such fantastic books!

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Tom Clavin's avatar

Thank you. I'll try!

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Prairie Rose's avatar

The sky has fallen.

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Jack Kelly's avatar

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.

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Prairie Rose's avatar

Despair is a key emotion in the grieving process. So is denial.

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All Tabs Open/Bridget LeRoy's avatar

Tom, this is amazing. Thank you.

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