Jeff Masters: Earth's attic is on fire

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12. I have no ability to affect the outcome either (he did say "I", not "we")

The efforts I've made have been more than easily counterbalanced by all the oil/coal/gas being burned by the other 6,999,999,999 people in the world.

Actually I'll go further than that. I don't want to affect the outcome. I actually want to see what happens over the next two or three decades - global warming, species extinctions, food/water/energy shortages, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, overfishing, deforestation, desertification, overpopulation, social breakdown - the whole nine yards. We are in the unique position of living through the real life manifestation of every dystopian SF novel ever written, and I really want to see how it turns out. I feel no particular concern about the fact that I've decided to take my shoulder off the tinker's wheel and instead devote my energies to the things I want to do, the things that I have decided are more important in this situation.