Last week I have attended public hearings by Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup that has happened at Bell Harbor Conference center in Seattle governor.wa.gov/issues/economy/climateWorkgroup/default.aspx The good news is that such thing exists and that about 600 people attended, hearings lasted for 3 hours and every speaker had 2 minutes to speak. The bad news is that majority of speeches were of 3 categories: my company has product __ that increases energy efficiency; do not allow coal trains, save cute __ animals and environment; climate change is not caused by humans, lets worry about jobs; And only 3 or 4 speakers ‘get it’ and were talking that problem is NOT economical but prevention of humanitarian catastrophes. And not for future generations, but for us, as one speaker said: we are the first generation that will directly feel ill effects of climate disruption leading scientists were warning us since 1930th. However majority of environmentalist arguments are not framed properly: - they say ‘no business on dead plane’ - that understandably triggers BS sensor, we are unlikely to kill entire planet - ecosystem will rebound and will continue to thrive but without us ( look how well it does in Chernobyl zone). Instead we should talk about adverse effects of toxins, potent microbes, and reduced bio diversity on us, humans; - human made climate change - again it triggers BS sensor - climate change is human _caused_, as a building destruction is caused by a single person triggering a bomb. We just releasing gianourmous amount energy that was collected and stored by our planet for millions of year, we triggering that carbon bomb which nature planted. math.350.org/ There are more hearings will happen, make democracy work - attend those and make your voice heard. And ask pointed questions: like, are greenhouse reduction goals in line with scientific consensus? When we abandon fuel tax as revenue source because it creates conflict of interest and disincentivize prevention of traffic jam?
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:51:43 +0000
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