Quote After Quote From GQP Elected Officials: "It's Summer"; "Nobody Knows"; "Crazy Left Agenda"

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. "How many deaths and disasters will it take?"

The answer is ... all of them.

There are 8B people, and the exact reason that earth can support 8B humans is because we're extracting the concentrated energy of something on the order of 10,000 years of accrued sunlight hitting the planet in the distant past EVERY DAY and burning it as an energy source (and turning it into fertilizer and pesticides and asphalt and concrete and dwellings and plastics and ...).

We are literally MADE of fossil fuels. Without leveraging them, we will die, in massive numbers. Absent an amazing technologic breakthrough like cold fusion, we cannot, and will not, escape the cold hard reality of the physics involved here.

To cut global fossil fuel production means lots of people dying in a very certain fashion.

Whereas ... continuing to burn them pushes this outcome down the road. Causes it to happen later, and if we're lucky, to OTHER people.

Ergo, we WILL collectively choose that option.

I really think it is that simple.

We are biologically incapable of making another choice. Especially because of the geopolitics involved ... we MIGHT have a chance of averting disaster via a one-world command and control government, but we don't have one, and very few of us want one.

We are not 'set up' as a World, nor is it our inclination as a species, to get ourselves out of this mess, and therefore will not do so. We'll keep burning the shit, as long as we have it, and the climate effects will kill us off in large numbers, but in lower number than if we stopped burning the shit.

Until it runs out, and then we're REALLY fucked.