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10. I remember reading stuff when I was a kid... All this shit was supposed to be settled by the 90's

And now it's all going to be settled by the 20's. And then it'll all be settled by 2100. And so on. "Any day now!" is said, every day, for as long as I can remember.

It's bullshit. "Just wait. Keep waiting. Wait some more! Any day now!"

Why do I say it's bullshit? Look where we stand in 2012. The science is unanimous. We're fucked, well and truly fucked. We've set the Earth on a fast track to the Eocene's climate levels again, just with what we've already done. We could stop it. We could hit the brakes on the train, maybe even very slowly start backing it up some day in the future. it would require lots of wealth invested, though. Lots of wealth, lots of time.

Instead, we spend what is it now, seven hundred billion dollars on our military? Buying new toys to kill people with. Sustaining troops and bases in nations primarily to say we have troops and bases in those nations, with a handful of others to protect our oil interests. Not just that we invest money in the militaries of other nations - Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan, Australia, India, Pakistan... All that welath going into making disposable "things" to kill people with. Not because we need them, but just to keep the production running, to keep consumption up, to keep production from tapering off.

But just wait! Any day now!

Don't give me this starry-eyed bullshit about "we can accomplish anything!" - Yeah, we can... but we won't. Ability is not ambition. All these nice little technologies? They're Roman Locomotives. Toys and curios that have potential but will never see accomplishment.

Unless there's some magical fucking shift in the way humans think, it just won't happen. Nations oppose non-pollution treaties because Bangladesh might get to emit a little more smoke than China or the US, or because it might not get to emit as much. Wrap your head around it, please. Look at Copenhagen and the results there. Look at Kyoto. On down the list. We're talking about trying ot fix a radical reconstruction of the global environment that we know sustains us into one there your guess is as good as mine, and our "leaders," the peopel in charge, are acting like kids fighting over who gets a bigger scoop of fucking ICE CREAM

We're fucked. We've passed the limits, and I see no signs of this changing. I'm confident that the species will persist - an ice age couldn't take us out, no reason a heat age would - but that's long-term. Short term? Things are going to go to hell within my lifetime.

Inherit the wasteland.