Our only hope for long term survival
- Technocornucopians – eg geoengineering and carbon drawdown fantasists, blinkered university academics and engineers, TZM, Elon Musk etc
- People who think reducing population and/or consumption are sacred cows which should never be mentioned
- People who are shocked by and reject the idea that billions will die this century
- Economists – who know the price of everything but the value of nothing
- The Pope (who jumped on the bandwagon too late, but nice dress though)
- Christians and other religious types
- Global warming deniers
- EconomistsCreationists
- Politicians
- Most Americans (they are mad)
- Kim Jong Un (slightly less mad)
- NBL fanatics (not referring to the basketball league here)
- Economists
I agree entirely with Dennis Meadows that climate change should be regarded as a symptom or complication or side effect of our overshoot. Climate chaos will relentlessly worsen to become the worst problem threatening our very existence, but it is not the core problem. Furthermore it is not the most urgent problem right now. Despite many areas having been hit by severe weather events, global industrial civilisation is not immediately at risk of being brought down by climate change1. Financial and economic collapse, which are intimately linked with the depletion of “easy” (high EROEI) oil and the looming net energy cliff (which will cause all resource outputs to fall off their respective Seneca cliffs) are much more immediate threats.
I assert that those who endeavour to study our predicaments should categorise threats according to what is worst, what is at the core and what is most urgent. Climate change is just one manifestation of the Limits to Growth and is not a core problem. Trying to address climate change in isolation is and always was futile. Solitary focus on “fixing” climate change alone will result in:
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