The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
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Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#2Less time than it thinks? We ran out of time a while ago, it's already well in progress.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#3Less time than it thinks? We ran out of time a while ago, it's already well in progress.
Yes, exactly, what time do people think they have? It's here, it's now, it's happening, it's all around us. This headline would have made a little more sense ten years ago.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#4Magazines like The Economist helped bring us here by describing Oil Companies still has a bright future and a great investment in the 80s and 90s.
Instead if they had authored high profile articles about how fossil fuels are driving this world to disaster, maybe we would be in a better place.
Doing that would have made their advertisers mad, so they kept writing about clean coal and oil for better $. It was the exact same with politicians, they did not want to loose most of their bribes (ie: political contributions) so they hid their head in the sand.
So now this magazine is writing articles about Climate Change, no thanks.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#5As long as there is no accountability for politicians, we will always have at least as much time as the next guy plans to stay in power.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#6As long as there is no accountability for politicians, we will always have at least as much time as the next guy plans to stay in power.
Politicians can only be held accountable as long as their base is willing to hold them to account. And unfortunately the old and wealthy have practiced the maximal mantra of FYGM. The degree with which not only do they hoard wealth but do everything in their power to ensure the old ways they made their wealth stay empowered tilts politics heavily.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#7al gore, hold me!
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#8Magazines like The Economist helped bring us here by describing Oil Companies still has a bright future and a great investment in the 80s and 90s. Instead if they had authored high profile articles about how fossil fuels are driving this world to disaster, maybe we would be in a better place. Doing that would have made their advertisers mad, so they kept writing about clean coal and oil for better $. It was the exact…
You should look into the economist a bit more.
For one, they have no advertisers to keep happy.
Edit: I stand corrected. A better way to phrase it is that their business model does not rely on advertising, and they traditionally did not run ads until recently.
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#9It's strange that anyone's still thinking there's "still time until we have to act". Is this really the average view out there?
Re: The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
#10Less time than it thinks? We ran out of time a while ago, it's already well in progress.
The world thinks it has time left, but it doesn’t. Seems accurate to me.