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By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, published 26/11/2009What will it take to rally people behind the need to take strong action on cutting carbon emissions?
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On climate, yes its changing, but why is that thought anything out of the ordinary? Clearly we don't understand it, but that doesn't mean we have to find some primitive type explanation, in the past of course, the "gods" controlled things. This is more of the same, except we've found a more modern explanation, it's that gas over there, yeah that's it. And if you don't believe us, you're a denier, skeptic, killer of children unborn, and on it goes .. sounds so like a primitive belief system.
It's our ignorance and arrogance that's to blame, the scientists who will not admit (except in private emails) that they don't know what's going on.
Sustainability, yep, OK I do agree it would take an apocalypse for behaviors to change. You are correct the whole climate thing detracts from us moving forward on sustainability, but why is it our scientists continue with all the doomsaying - look at the media at the moment, every scientist with a vested interest is out there saying catastrophe is imminent, it's hard for anything else to get a hearing. The Copenhagen thing is so sexy it has all the greenies and eco types in a tiz, everyone wants to be there, like our PM. Everyone wants to be a part of stopping the climate, no one cares what happens after that.