[lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 6 12:42:19 PDT 2007


On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Chuck wrote:


> I don't even have children and the fate of future generations is
> constantly on my mind.
>
> Perhaps I'm a stupid, incurable optimist, so I don't fit well with the
> doomsayer collapsism of the American Left. I think that we can make a
> difference, but we have to ACT now.

Once again, I'm 100% with Chuck. Having a kid made me take global warming more personally, but even before that it scared me. But not to paralysis or fatalism or collapsism (I like that one!). It's as if all the crisis theorists just found another pole of doom to hang their hats on.

Doug



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