Bill McKibben: This is how the earth works now

[Hydra]

5. Everything we're getting says that we're in a feedback loop now

The Obama Administration can't or won't address the issue now because it's probably too late.

Remember how much was getting covered up during the Bush Administration? I could lay a safe bet that during that 8 years was our chance to do something radical- say, switching from hydrocarbons to hydrogen and other renewables and doing other things to suck the man-mades out of the air.

Now we're seeing the results of that- Our food drying up, no water, crazy weather.

Whether it was entirely our fault or just part of the cycle, the Earth is now a less hospitable environment for us. We could have planned, made some effort to mitigate the changes, or at least set up new systems for us to use to live in the new normal.

Instead, we let the billionaires play with our money and put us all in peril. Cool, huh?