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Copenhagen: the price of the atmosphere : Comments
By Andrew Glikson, published 31/12/2009A denial campaign waged by contrarians supported by fossil fuel interests is holding the world to ransom.
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The thing is we can't stop; if anything happened to hinder production, supply and demand, the same thing would happen. Most people seem to have no conception of just how precarious our situation is, with a panarchic armageddon just waiting to kick in the infrastructure, and positive feed-back loops ensuring a thorough purge. It's just a matter of whether the planet or man-made chaos does us in first.
Moreover, if we want to keep a hand on the tiller while we go down the tubes, then we have to keep capital and production going. Capitalism is the only thing that can fund and manufacture the quantum technological leap needed. The world's billions of consumers are the means of production; they produce the surplus that funds the R&D that will ultimately save us(a few). These vital new technologies will be the by-product of continued and unconscionable human avarice.
Change must be gradual, the least spook could precipitate the system into chaos before the means of survival have been developed. Copenhagen was thus a resounding success; even the rudimentary intellects of the most bovine denialists are persuaded that something should be done, as long as it doesn't affect them.
So be it; we are doomed to die-off suddenly, to suffer the ignominious demise that confronts any plague.