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CrispyQ

(38,967 posts)
4. Pessimistic? Fuckin' A I'm pessimistic.
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 01:44 PM
Jun 2014

Our measly little 30% effort (in one industry!) by 2030 isn't going to do squat. We need major reform now, across the globe, but there is no political will to do so in a for-profit model. We are moving too slowly on all fronts. We arrogantly believe that our big brain will save us from our own self-destruction, but we can't even rein in our greed.

Greed is going to kill our planet.




This is an excellent documentary by a scientist, James Balog, who was skeptical about climate change until he went out & got photographic evidence of the arctic melting. There is a calving event in the movie that is mind blowing in scope. It took approximately 90 minutes in real time for a glacier about the size of Manhattan to break off. Netflix has this movie. Highly recommended.

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30% by 2030? CrispyQ Jun 2014 #1
No it's not too late. mylye2222 Jun 2014 #2
Pessimistic? Fuckin' A I'm pessimistic. CrispyQ Jun 2014 #4
It is an ambiguous goal - and even it may be hard to meet karynnj Jun 2014 #3
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