The Only Thing That Will Stop Global Warming Is A Massive Economic Downturn

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. quite right

We have had serious decisions to make for decades, but have utterly failed to see past our own immediate wants and needs. It was magical thinking that life would keep getting better and better, more convenient and upwardly mobile, generation after generation. Half assed market based solutions like trading carbon credits made more sense in the economics class than in the real world. And only after years of denial did people begin to assuage their consumption guilt by starting a compost pile in our back yard, buying a more fuel efficient 2nd vehicle, and putting the recycling out on the curb. Too little, too late.