Climate Change skeptics? [ot]

While no one of us can shoulder personal responsibility for this tragedy of the commons, all of us who have benefited from the heedless extraction of oil and relentless destruction of the forests and the oceans must be aware of the extent to which we have brought this on ourselves, and taken the rest of the natural world along with us.

Imagine a growing season where all over the planet we lurched from heat and drought to torrential rains and tornadoes.

In the US we have become accustomed to thinking of food insecurity as something that happens in other parts of the world.

Famine stalks Asia and Africa. It doesn’t come near us.

The indigenous people [of Indonesia] who made the forest their home for millennia are being mercilessly deprived of their natural habitat just as surely as the rest of the flora and fauna there.

The loss of biodiversity, including the loss of ancient indigenous human cultures, is a tragedy that cannot be quantified. What is being lost is priceless.

At a speech earlier this month, GM CEO Dan Akerson said his company is running its business under the assumption that climate change is real.

Writing as a Venice Beach resident, this is not an abstract concern, but a very real long term worry. Of course, there will be the usual global warming denial from the shill shop trolls who have their interns or lowest level staffers post here. All I hope for in that regard is I get the opportunity to have a measure of schadenfreude as they flounder in the mess their paymasters created. It will be even better if said paid trolls clamber to the entrance of their paymasters fortresses and desperately plead for admittance and are turned away like beggars in the night.