While on the climate change topic, there's another thing I have wondered about.
Most climate change pundits claim that danger is either imminent, or the date by which we could prevent catastrophic change has already passed and that we should now try and limit the scale of the change to merely very large, as opposed to apocalyptic.
But no one, not even governments of countries like the Netherlands, which risk losing huge swathes of the country to rising oceanic levels seem to be talking about actually preparing for any catastophies. It's all about prevention, even as they talk about the uselessness of trying to do so. But no one seems to be saying, "OK, this is what is going to happen and this is what we should do to actually doing to make sure we're ready." It's almost as if they don't actually believe most of the warnings they endlessly repeat.
* I'm sure I've read a similar sentiment written in someone's blog before. I'll get around to finding and putting up the link sometime soon.
Most climate change pundits claim that danger is either imminent, or the date by which we could prevent catastrophic change has already passed and that we should now try and limit the scale of the change to merely very large, as opposed to apocalyptic.
But no one, not even governments of countries like the Netherlands, which risk losing huge swathes of the country to rising oceanic levels seem to be talking about actually preparing for any catastophies. It's all about prevention, even as they talk about the uselessness of trying to do so. But no one seems to be saying, "OK, this is what is going to happen and this is what we should do to actually doing to make sure we're ready." It's almost as if they don't actually believe most of the warnings they endlessly repeat.
* I'm sure I've read a similar sentiment written in someone's blog before. I'll get around to finding and putting up the link sometime soon.
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