No time to say hello – goodbye! – we’re late, we’re late, we’re late! (1)

Why do we, the People, ignore the urgency of global warming? Sure, since Gore’s movie we’ve been paying more attention to a careening climate, but we don’t write home about it. We’re willing to change a few lightbulbs, but not to make any of the fundamental changes necessary to save the future (near as well as distant). We act like there’s a dribbling leak in our bathtubs, denying that it’s a gusher in our teetering lifeboat. Why?

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The future of life on earth is not a business decision . . .

While the Sierra Club has a long history of environmental education and activism, with respect to climate it is firmly in the delusional crowd of 80% emissions reductions by 2050 (see our September 25th post, The 80% Follies).

Sierra Magazine reports on a “climate brain trust” (1) that the Club convened on December 14, 2006. Why are we to trust the brains of these important people to guide us through the climate crisis? Well, because they are “prominent experts,” whom we might also call . . .

The Culture Savers

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