“Let’s start with the fact that climate change is anthropogenic,” Weber told me one morning in her Columbia office. “More or less, people have agreed on that. That means it’s caused by human behavior. That’s not to say that engineering solutions aren’t important. But if it’s caused by human behavior, then the solution probably also lies in changing human behavior.” Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
An overly long but insightful article ruminating about the brain’s cognitive dissonance concerning future threats. Unscientifically, it seems the human condition focuses on the what’s hurting most at the moment. And the present economic crisis is hurtful, indeed. So proximity is a major component. Several years ago as I stood on dry ground with an Alaskan where a fifty-foot high glacier had stood a short few years ago before it melted, it was obvious he and his friends don’t consider global warming hysterical left-wing fiction. Global warming is here, now.
What will be nutcake neocons’ rationalizations for their special-interest inspired derision of global warming as they board gondolas on Fifth Avenue?