Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'

[dreamnightwind]

21. Great point!

"This is also an example of the notion that there is no honest communication in a hierarchy. The more power one has, the less accurate the information reported to them becomes."

That is a fundamental problem humanity must resolve. It's true on many levels, too, from power within small social groups to power within large bureaucracies. Truth telling comes at too high of a price to the subordinates, so the truth is generally "sanitized" enough to not threaten the subordinate's membership in the group.

This flaw may well contribute to humanity's demise. Now that our activities are having impacts on a planetary scale, we no longer have the luxury of just going with the flow, going along to get along, that's a game that does not end well.

It's Gore's "inconvenient truth". We have to learn to value such truths rather than attacking the messengers.