The Scientists Are Terrified

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61. Oh, they've been "terrified" since the 1970's

When the so-called "Greenhouse Effect" was first named, measured and confirmed.

They tested their results. And re-tested them. Over the years they built better and better models, and those models confirmed that if we didn't stop releasing millions of years of carbon into the atmosphere in the short span of 200-300 years, we would cook this planet.

We are cooking this planet. We are up on, and approaching vertical part of, The Curve. You remember the one.

Meanwhile, Capitalists - the wealthy investor-owners who profit from extracting & selling carbon based energy - used some of those profits to buy politicians.

They bought a lot of politicians, and it was a good investment for them.

Not so good for the rest of us.

But hey, they can afford to buy homes in the last refuge areas and then die of old age.

Capitalists *love* the Prisoner's Dilemma Game when they have control over the variables, and in our society they always have control over the variables.