There's no way out.
Those who recall the first Oil Embargo in November '73 will remember -- for the first time ever -- considering a world where there was no fossil fuel. None. The obvious conclusion was that civilization, as we know it, would cease.
Transportation would end. Agriculture would stop. Whole industries would be destroyed. Jobs would disappear. People would die.
The Paris Accord, like Kyoto, was a step toward gradualism in elimination of fossil fuels, and climate control. An effort to minimize the adverse consequences and impacts, over time. But you can see, can't you, that without fossil fuels this earth can't support mankind's current economics?
Cut it off fast, or slow — makes no difference. Cut it off for climate: in the end, the outcome is the same.
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How can we avoid some of the pain? The environmental damage? Only by acting now -- but you read the questions, didn't you? What will people give up to save the world? The answer is nothing. People have kids to feed, and mortgages to pay. Whatever they have, little or great as it may be, they want more -- not less.
So Mother Nature will do what mankind can't -- and she'll be ruthless.
If you can logic a different future, I'd love to see it.
Jim |
