McKibben article at MSNBC
March 13, 2014
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s article on the lack of real action on climate change was published at msnbc.
From the article:
The last few weeks have been a rhetorical high-water mark for climate concern. The trouble is, they’ve also been a high-water mark for … water. Before you read the rest of this short essay, you might want to take 46 seconds to watch this video of a “king tide” path of destruction across the Marshall Islands in the Pacific last week. This is just the kind of thing starting to happen across the planet.
Watching it helps you understand just how right Secretary of State John Kerry was when he called global warming “the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” That’s the sharpest language any high-ranking official has ever used about climate.
Not to be outdone, Kerry’s former Senate colleagues staged an all-night teach-in on the chamber floor Monday, with 30 Democrats one after another explaining the peril the planet faced. Harry Reid: “It’s a question of our survival.” Tim Kaine: “We need to take any action that gets us from dirty to less dirty.” Ed Markey, channeling one Dr Seuss: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”