The scientist who, first warned Congress about global warming twenty years ago,returned on June 28 to say, not only are his warnings as true now as then, but that we’re approaching a “tipping point,” after which the effects of global warming will be irreversible.
“The difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb. The next President and Congress must define a course
next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for
the present dangerous situation.”
What a sad state of affairs that we’re faced with two presidents, the Democrat supported by all the industries that are trunking out (corn, and coal if you believe him it still has a way to go) or a Republican candidate who stands for oil, the state of affairs which has brought our state to such a precipitous pass. The New York Times agrees, with articles such as Are Big Oil and Big Coal Climate Criminals?
City-states like New York, where the temperature rises precipitously in August who’s mayor’s have little allegiance to the Republic, may consider greening their roofs, as in this case study in Hong Kong. Since I wrote those words yesterday, record numbers are saying they want to see a local response, meaning their already writing off the rest of the country for survival’s sake.
Washington dares actually posing a threat to national security, according to this article from Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Members of Congress have been briefed on this report. Meanwhile, their continued war to control the world’s energy supplies brooks a threat to our civilization on a global scale.
We need not be reminded it took us countless thousands of years to get here, and here we are, at the singularity, an important projection of our conscious global evolution[picture of pyramid with line coming out of top, subtitled " what is the point of civilization?] , and the United States government seems finds the decimation of our species acceptable.
Originally posted 2008-07-07 22:24:25. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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