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| IS YOUR CLIMATE MODEL BREEDING BOLSHEVIKS? |
"The future looks fiery and dangerous. Hot on the heels of Trump, fake news and the parlous state of the Brexit negotiations, despair is in the air...a cascade of catastrophe, with melting permafrost releasing methane to ratchet up global temperatures enough to drive much of the Amazon to die off, and so on in a chain reaction around the world that pushes Earth into which there is no return. Civilisation as we know it would surely not survive.
As a research scientist in this field, I can give some nuance to the headlines...we are on track to transform Earth this century...
without cooperative internationalism the problems will exacerbate, leading to a lock-in of a deteriorating, isolationist, fascist future.
without cooperative internationalism the problems will exacerbate, leading to a lock-in of a deteriorating, isolationist, fascist future.
The future is up to us if we act collectively and engage in politics. To quote Antonio Gramsci: “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will...the future is the politics we make today.
