If a rapidly heating planet were the plot of the movie, everyone knows what would happen: the political class would drop everything to try to fix the problem and there would be crazy action heroes pulling out all the stops to save the world.
The Very Bad Plot of a Very Bad Ecological Thriller
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Good thing we live in this universe, Ted, where that is not the case. Thank you for reminding us to count our blessings….
Henri
The Earth will be just fine. Human exhaust has altered the delicate balance that makes it a suitable life support system for our fragile species. We’ll be gone in the geological blink of an eye and the planet will continue to become the next thing.
From an U.N. perspective, the debate is over and the science is settled. Climate does change and people impact the environment. Solution is to tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth of nations.
Now that the facts are firmly established, why do the promoters Catastrophic Climate Change (e.g. U.N. Members, et al) refuse to embrace the lifestyle that would impose upon others?
If they take the threat of Global Warming seriously, dire enough to change the way we live as a people, might they not do the same? If human civilization is at stake?
Well, Kelly, do you yourself take the realty – – at this point in time, no longer merely the «threat» – of (anthropogenic) global warming seriously enough to change your style of life ? Or perhaps it needs no changing ?…
Henri
These are valid questions. I approach it like recycling plastic. I do what I can, but individual choices will never have sufficient impact to turn the ship around. What it will take is a regulatory structure that imposes a penalty that eliminates the advantages to manufacturers for using plastics. I can’t “make the choice” if the choice of a non-plastic product never exists. My point is: individual choices matter, but the forcing function is on the supply side. Same with global warming.
I’ve thought many times about the same subject as this cartoon. Remember in World War Z when in the face of an existential threat to civilization and collapse of the government, the US military ceded authority to the United Nations? For me that was the most unrealistic part. Not the zombies.
I quite agree, jackalope66 ; individual commitments won’t cut it.I merely reacted to Kelly’s castigation of those whom he claims want others to change their life styles while being, he implies, unwilling to change their own. Even hypocrisy has its limits…. 😉
Henri
There will be NO change within the capitalist system. Of course, that accentuates the problem: how to get people to change, in this case, their ( massively propagandized, false attitudes) about any other economic system.
You want a bad plot? In all seriousness: Has anyone thought about how msm and the centrists et alia will react when, um, Biden loses? I mean that, absolutely, as a serious point.. You want apocalyptic entertainment? Strap in. We’re kind of already sensitized to climate change. (Hurricane Zeta, anyone?) But if you want to see people losing their collective mind, wait until Biden finishes reading out his concession speech.