Bill McKibben: This is how the earth works now

[AverageJoe90]

71. It's only a truly lost cause if we give up.

To be frankly honest with you, community building and helping our fellowman reconnect with nature is pretty heartwarming and all, but it's not going to really do us any good until we start fixing things, no matter how much we may wish otherwise(I actually went thru this myself at one point.)

Before I go you may want to read this Skeptical Science article:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-too-hard.htm

I do find it rather funny(and not always in a comedic way, either) that there seem to be a few remarkable similarities between the deniers' "Humans can't hurt the climate" arguments, and the "We can't stop global warming!" ones coming from the apocalyptic Cassandra set.

I came to the realization some time ago that sitting around and doing nothing will never help us out. Again, I should reiterate that we can indeed greatly enhance our connections with the natural world and build better communities, but we must also focus on not just mere adaptation, but also mitigating, stabilizing and eventually reversing, whatever problems we can, or it'll all come to naught.

(P.S., I did just start looking at your site, btw.....