Climate change/global warming is an existential threat to humanity. But the main effect of it, warmer weather, is repeatedly reported as something positive. What we really need to be spurred into action is a seriously painful development.
How We Will Finally Get Serious about Climate Change
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, 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 "The Stringer."
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Another yankee-centric comic.
Your breed needs to be ass-kicked.
Let’s send all yanks to Africa, Asia, South America, etc… where people PRESENTLY suffer and die from the effects of the climate crisis for which yanks bear the greatest responsibility.
Crowds of humanity, with all of the insight of moths flying into a flame.
Don’t worry, those effects are on their way. Unfortunately, it’s all but too late already.
Glenn, at least those pantry moths, the ones with brains the size of a fractional grain of salt, put up a challenge when I’m trying to dispatch them. Humans, more and more, remind me of those sexy teens who decide to visit the abandoned insane asylum on a dare and hear about an escaped maniac being seen in the area, but keep right on going.
I have two main suspicions now. First, the Greta Thunbergs and other “activists,” will continue to not get anything done. What should have arisen by now is a disruptive form of eco-terrorism similar to the Animal Liberation Front of the 1970s or the Earth Liberation Front of the 1980s. Instead, we’ve got a spokesperson who looks like she should be on the label of a box of powdered hot cocoa mix.
Second, I suspect that climate change is going to start happening a lot faster than even the scientists think. Every so often, I read articles that amount to: “Oh, here’s another thing we didn’t think about that’s going to add to the problem.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “We got it wrong. Things are far less worse than we thought.”
Certainly the EU’s looming self-sanction on purchasing Russian oil & gas will, for the first time, introduce to its inhabitants the type of drastic consumption cuts necessary before any claim of dealing effectively with climate disaster can justifiably be entertained. (Of course, this is an accurate predictor of the likelihood of the EU actually imposing those threatened sanctions!)