Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts too much.
Our failure to act isn’t just short-sightedness; it’s willful ignorance. This may be the result of another flaw in human wiring: We tend to assume the future will look a lot like the present, so even if the present is slightly worse than the past, it’s hard for us to imagine things could get even worse still.
Well obviously the people in this bloomberg piece have to talk to the nyt piece’s scientist.
“This is not a science problem; it’s a political problem,” Dessler said in an interview. “If we don’t solve it, it’s because we chose not to solve it, not because we didn’t have the solution.”
Ah. They’ve read that report. They’ve read it and realize that what might be done is not going to be done unless we install lawmakers who force solutions down our collective throats.
Well obviously the people in this bloomberg piece have to talk to the nyt piece’s scientist.
Ah. They’ve read that report. They’ve read it and realize that what might be done is not going to be done unless we install lawmakers who force solutions down our collective throats.