October 06, 2007
The Future Is Now
It's October in Minnesota and I have the air conditioner running. This just feels...wrong. We Midwesterners are not immediately threatened by the consequences of global warming (unless you're the owner of a ski resort), but the developing world has much more at stake. UN officials are already declaring that much of humanity is already confronting a "mega disaster" brought on by a record number of floods, droughts, and storms. But as long as the fallout of climate change remains largely confined to Asia and Africa, the chief emitters of CO2 will be slow to change their behavior. It is probably already too late to reverse the effects of our dependence on fossil fuels; all we can do is hope that we can mitigate the damage.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at October 6, 2007 05:29 PM