There’s a change a-comin‘. You don’t need no ticket. Just get on board.
Are we SERIOUSLY still talking about this? I know that there are plenty of people out there for whom this is just voodoo science, or who believe that Jesus is going to come and whisk them away before their crops dry up and all the frogs are dead and Bangladesh is entirely under water and the only polar bears anyone will see are animatronic (“Daddy, did the real polar bears like Coke too?”). This psychopathic foot-dragging must be stopped.
Now even radical leftist outlets like Time are calling next month’s Bali summit the “last, best chance to do something about global warming.” So, basically, we’re doomed. Because the likelihood that China and the US are going to agree on binding caps on carbon emissions is about the same as, say, the Royals winning the World Series next year (let’s be charitable – before the polar ice caps melt) or Sherwood Idso joining up with Earth First! (again, charitable – even with the Sierra Club). This is a conference that the US only announced it would actually attend on October 8th, after substantial pressure was applied by the EU and others. But I’m sure it was just a late RSVP. You know how it goes – things pile up on your desk, like wars and wiretapping warrants (oh, wait), and you just get too busy. I get it. Maybe it’s a good time to turn a crisis into an opportunity. By, say, telling a story about golf. Or “bringing industry to the table.”
Don’t hold your breath for Bali. Or do. At least that way emissions will go down.
