Climate researcher Jim Hansen [ex NASA] says civil resistance only way to combat climate change
Excerpt from New Scientist, 15 December 2009
'..."Your governments are lying through their teeth," he says. He believes the Kyoto protocol is a dismal failure, and its proposed successors, along with the cap-and-trade schemes favoured by President Barack Obama, have no chance of achieving what is needed either. "Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are," he points out.
It gets worse. Decades of experience with US governments have led Hansen to believe that the political systems in the US and many other democracies are incapable of delivering effective action, because politicians serve the short-term interests of special interest groups with plenty of money to throw around - like the fossil-fuel industry - rather than the long-term welfare of citizens.
Extraordinarily, Hansen thinks civil resistance is now the only way forward. "It is up to you," he concludes...'
Inevitable.
ReplyDeleteI wish it wasn't.
Sadly, this war has barely begun.
I fear deeply for my grandchildren, and I fear that I understand completely what Jim Hensen is saying.