Jeff Masters: Earth's attic is on fire

[AverageJoe90]

13. I could have misread him, perhaps.

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.

Well, I'm afraid you'll have to look long and hard for fellow environmentalists who support that view because you're not likely to find many on DU. Most of us who accept global warming as a reality, environmentalists or otherwise, WANT to repair the problems that can be repaired.

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 wouldn't quite go that far. Hey, things are bad. I get that. But then again, I've read a few SF novels in my life, and I've watched plenty of movies; I don't expect to have to worry about Buck Rogers or Mad Max in our lifetimes.....at least not in the First World(the 3rd World may be a different story, though, depending on how things pan 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.

Fine by me. The majority of us are still going to work on solutions like those outlined in the Skeptical Science article.