This post is somewhat dated, I’ve been moving and haven’t had internet.
I forget where I heard that quote but if you haven’t guessed it relates to the G8’s “decision” not to allow an increase in global temp of more than 2C
This is dumb because it implies that we have a lot more control over global climate than we do.
Yes reducing carbon emissions would help the planet get back to an equilibrium but whether we can actually stop the current trends initiated more than two hundred years ago is a different question.
It is arrogant to state we have this much control over nature and stupid to assume that we know what will happen as temperatures rise.
Take sea level rise for example, IT IS NOT HAPPENING. This is not to say we shouldn’t reduce emissions and be clean for the future, just that symbolic goals without any reason to believe we can accomplish them doesn’t seem like the most effective way to change things.
…Particularly not when developing countries (ie the majority of the world) refuse to abide by this “decision”
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