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Once You’ve Brutalized the Climate, Pain Is Unavoidable

Ray Katz
3 min readAug 4, 2022

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Stop telling me how inhumane my ideas about ending fossil fuel use is. The fact is, we have no choice because we created this disaster by failing to act for decades.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

I often write about the necessity to end the use of fossil fuels because we are cooking the planet with them, and dooming our children and our species. It’s pretty straightforward and just a more forceful way of repeating warnings given to us by climate scientists.

Fossil fuel advocates and “realists” then attack me for being cruel to those who need and depend on fossil fuels. Which, since currently nearly everything is powered by fossil fuels, is pretty much everybody. We all depend on fossil fuels.

But THAT is the problem. That’s WHY we need to replace them with clean energy. Because we have remained dependent on the very thing that’s killing us. And we’ve gone on like this for far too long. Which creates consequences.

At this late date we can:

  1. Continue on our current path, fail to do anything, and watch as our species collapses and dies in a horrible multi-faceted death, or
  2. Make the maximum effort to fix the problem, survive, but go through extreme difficulties along the way.

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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