Are We Looking at the End? — a Few Further Thoughts

In my recent post Are We Looking at the End? I quoted a few scientists who claim that human civilization will “unravel” somewhere between 2040 and 2050, due primarily to climate change and the loss of biodiversity, particularly the insects.

In response, longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood writes:

What we need is a global moonshot attitude toward transitioning, and that we don’t have.

We also need a buy-in by the most exorbitantly wealthy among us, the top 1%, and we don’t have that either.

Of course, the least powerful among us individually have little sway over the direction of the paradigm, and the most powerful are disinclined to alter their behavior.

Any advisors they listen to are dependent on their good graces and will wait until what they think is the last minute to advise change.

By then it will have been too late. It may already be now.

I don’t advise we give up, as potent action may still mitigate the worst of the consequences, and at least we will have tried.

Excellent points.  This civilization has no paradigm of cooperative action to promote its survival.  Rich people prosper, poor people suffer, and that’s about it.

Making matters worse is the fact that the United States is driving in reverse.  Massive numbers of largely uneducated, anti-science voters just re-elected Donald Trump to a second term. We’re in a pathetic condition.

I’m not giving up either but ignoring the core of the problem is not helpful.