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Post by blissdragon on Aug 21, 2012 11:28:51 GMT 9.5
After reading Bill McKibben's article (and then lots more recent climate science), my family has opted to abandoned our day-to-day green lifestyle and are beginning a walk to promote climate change. We have a blog up here: www.pacingtheplanet.orgIf you feel inspired, please read and share. *wave* blissdragon
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Post by davidm on Aug 21, 2012 12:06:08 GMT 9.5
After reading Bill McKibben's article Not to take away from your thoughtful input, in case folks weren't aware I already started a thread( What happens if we don't get under the bar) based on McKibben's article.
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Post by blissdragon on Aug 21, 2012 12:12:16 GMT 9.5
Great...thanks for linking to the article.
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Post by anonposter on Aug 21, 2012 12:28:07 GMT 9.5
Raising awareness isn't enough, we need to solve the problem and going for a walk won't do that. Then there's the fact that McKibben has a tendency of proposing solutions which don't work (he seems to think Germany's energy policy is good when it's pretty close to the worst possible).
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Post by davidm on Aug 21, 2012 17:14:59 GMT 9.5
Then there's the fact that McKibben has a tendency of proposing solutions which don't work (he seems to think Germany's energy policy is good when it's pretty close to the worst possible). I think in the case of the timeline and tons of allowable carbon gas pollution before serious environmental breakdown McKibben is sticking pretty close to the experts. In the case of Germany and its turn from nuclear to accelerated renewables he is more on his own. Here from Germany is a report that would seem to be more consistent with your perspective.
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Post by anonposter on Aug 21, 2012 18:11:29 GMT 9.5
The amount of extra CO2 we can put into the atmosphere depends more on our ability to adapt and our tolerance for environmental changes (some of which we won't like) than anything else.
The fact that the warming will be gradual is going to help us somewhat in that we'll have some time to figure out what is changing and be ready for it (at least for those of us with ready access to high technology, something McKibben doesn't seem to like).
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