DESPITE RAGING forest fires and images of receding glaciers, the consequences of climate change seem vague and abstract, buried under a mountain of stats and UN reports. Many know the effects will be terrible but policymakers and journalists struggle to describe how it will change our way of life—and thereby get the world to act.New York
I also see the early returns from the Paris accords as pretty discouraging on that point. It is, after just a few years, a real failure. No major industrial nation is on track to honour its commitments, which if honoured perfectly, would still land us north of 3°C this century. But certainly other approaches are possible, too—ranging from left-wing forms of quasi-eco-socialism to right-wing forms of authoritarian nationalism and self-interest. And many more, too.
But even so, I think it’s unlikely that we see one response, one path forward for the nation state or the global order. I think we’ll see a variety of divergent responses, all around the world, some of them posed explicitly against each other as clearly as the ideologies of the Cold War were.
I hesitate to make any one-size-fits all claim, but I do think there will certainly be some of us—some individuals, some nations—that move in this direction in response to perceptions of resource scarcity and a more general perception of global zero-sum-ness. But I think we're likely to see the opposite impulse, as well, towards forms of communitarianism and—even at the sub-political level—simple empathy.
We still don’t know all that much about how humans before the arrival of agriculture, statehood, and “civilization” regarded the course of history—though it was a favourite pastime of early modern philosophers to imagine the inner lives of precivilized people, from “nasty, brutish, and short” to idyllic, carefree, unencumbered.
dwallacewells FridaysForFuture FridayForFuture Certainly YES : His recommendations will work especially the one on Nordhaus :
dwallacewells It is not about 'fixing' climate change- but about slowing the effects as much as possible by reducing our impacts upon it.
dwallacewells Current political systems are useless as politicians are selfish&visionless. Also consumer - culture based economic system is big reason foe climate change
dwallacewells All of the political systems we currently prop up are based on endless economic growth with no acknowledgment of the planet's carrying capacity or prioritization of human development.
dwallacewells Are there models of a regulated global economy sequestering or eliminating emissions to achieve some manner of climate control, such that demographics of 2050 are stable and society civil? AskingForAfriend
dwallacewells Is this a real story? LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
dwallacewells Please define “climate change”
dwallacewells Yes, that's why it is essential we adapt our financial/economic system to enable a sustainable economy. We can actually be more prosperous doing the right thing. However time is not on our side ecologically speaking.
dwallacewells That’s because the concept of man made climate change is a money grabbing scheme.
dwallacewells Climate change is not an environmental problem, climate change is an ENERGY problem. Energy Austerity is not a solution. Global self-flagellation for climate/petroleum sins is not policy.
dwallacewells Our mission at is to build the social media platform that ends fake news
dwallacewells Are you nuts? No one can fix climate change? Only if you stop earth from tilting n prevent sun's coronal ejections. All ur little gestures of righteousness- no smoking, carpooling, gardening won't help while u bomb syria, iran, afghan and drill oil everywhere.
dwallacewells No! That’s because our populations and politicians have become the rabble that Plato feared. And we are more likely - in our prisoner’s dilemma - to lurch toward perceived self-preservation than the mutually beneficial undertakings that may save us all! JoWolffBSG alanigolanski
dwallacewells Climate change is fake.
dwallacewells Of those countries most responsible for the amount of ghg emissions, which are making the most progress toward mitigation? Which of them are western style democracies?
dwallacewells The Liberals are just using it has a cash cow.
dwallacewells Possibly not because serious and practical long term actions are needed but nor the political neither the economic systems are focusing on it.
dwallacewells Did I accidentally click on a CNN opinion piece?
dwallacewells Wow!! The mask is off as the hill advocates for totalitarian eco-communism
dwallacewells It is not because liberal democracy, it is because capitalism!
dwallacewells Y not, the human nature is at it best when everything goes wrong.
dwallacewells The only way to fix this problem is though technological innovation. People are not going to give up modern life, our existence depends on it. Let the scientist get busy!
dwallacewells The earth has had these landscapes for millennia
dwallacewells …profit, mandate or power have no sense any longer on a burning planet. Words and marketing must be replaced by unity, action, responsibility, sobriety and common sens! A model that respects a fragile balance with the planet... lessisbetter (5/5)
dwallacewells …real topics like the balance human/planet, the efficiency of the society, reintroduction of responsibility, reason and the integrity and reliability of leaders must be the basis of any debate. We must think and act differently... lessisbetter (4/5)
dwallacewells Hope the answer is no.