A Decade of Global Warming As a general principle, it seems that the older we are, the more difficulty we have wrapping our brains around the truly alarming timetable accelerations we’re now being given by experts in everything from climate change to species loss to poverty alleviation. To put it simply, things are getting worse more quickly than we thought, and much more quickly than we’re making things better. Prospects of planetary collapse we once thought native to the next century, or the century after that, are looming as possibilities for the next decade or two. Things are spiraling seriously downwards, so we need to change our thinking and move with a speed unseen since World War Two. Our understanding of climate change, in particular, has morphed quickly this year. We now understand that our deadline to undertake serious steps might best be measured in years, a decade at best, and that action needs to be dramatic and sustained. But our popular culture has not, to put it mildly, caught up to this new reality. That’s why this MTV video is powerful and welcome, driving home artistically the magnitude of the problem and the brevity of a decade (3,650 days… (more)
(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Media at 10:31 PM)