We've been pretty quiet this week here on our fragmented homeland. Sorry. It's just that, well.. we've been mulling things over. First, we went to see The Yes Men Fix the World and we even got some face-time with one of the stars. (Who knew DL was so well connected, eh?) It's inspiring, because it makes activism look like fun.
But being inspired hasn't been enough. We've also been thinking about Derrick Jensen and Guy McPherson, and wondering how to get unstuck from the deep and profound understanding that the world as we know it is collapsing.
And it is. It really truly, depressingly, devastatingly is. Scientists now are talking about how to adapt to the havoc 4 degrees C is going to wreak on human communities. That's not good, folks. And it's soon: 4 deg. by 2065 if Copenhagen talks fails.
Officials around the globe aim to avoid warming the Earth by more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit compared to preindustrial times. The idea is to avoid a “tipping point” that causes catastrophic and irreversible changes to weather patterns and landscapes.(Via.)
Without a significant change in course, global warming could reach 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, the scientists said Tuesday.
It’s not clear that the fast-growing world population can come close to cutting greenhouse gases as much as scientists suggest. In 2008, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels were about 40 percent higher than those in 1990, according to Tuesday’s report. It said that even if emissions do not exceed current levels, within 20 years the world could face a tipping point.
We'll go back to our quiet corner now.
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