In effect, arsonists are in charge of the climate fire department. We need to put climate scientists in charge, and fire the fire starters.
It isn’t that we don’t know what to do about the climate crisis. We know. We’ve been told in clear language 35 years ago. We know that we need to slash fossil fuel use, and take other measures required by Nature Herself to stabilize the climate that our so-called civilization has been rapidly destroying.
The problem is obvious: the authorities, the people in charge, those who make policy decisions, who make decisions about energy and production — they have chosen to perpetuate and exacerbate the crisis. And they’ve been making all the decisions in direct violation of the science for the 35 years since the warning.
They are still in charge. THEY are the root of the problem.
Sort of. They are clearly at fault. But WE are in a position to stop the problem and take appropriate action. Because THEY depend on us.
The people in charge — oil sheiks, and billionaires and various politicians and institutions that they essentially own — THEY don’t actually DO anything. They use their wealth and positions to issue orders.
WE — ordinary non-decision makers like US — have been taking those orders and are essentially carrying out the biggest…
