tomBitonti
Hero
Perhaps more reasonably:
* Not trusting other folks to do the right thing even though they are correctly describing the problem.
For example:
Using global warming to ask folks to reduce resources, but going ahead of using a lot of them yourself.
Going ahead with very untested proposals (carbon sequestration; seeding the ocean with iron, &etc).
My sense is this underlies a lot of folks reservations about global warming. They believe that something is happening, but very much distrust folks to address the issue fairly.
(Or, only half in jest:
* Having an uncomfortable sense that having the tools to understand global warming requires a civilization which uses resources to a degree to cause global warming. If you unwind all of that, vast resource use may be synonymous with modern civilization. Then any real solution would be of a scope to make most folks extremely uneasy.)
Thx!
TomB
* Not trusting other folks to do the right thing even though they are correctly describing the problem.
For example:
Using global warming to ask folks to reduce resources, but going ahead of using a lot of them yourself.
Going ahead with very untested proposals (carbon sequestration; seeding the ocean with iron, &etc).
My sense is this underlies a lot of folks reservations about global warming. They believe that something is happening, but very much distrust folks to address the issue fairly.
(Or, only half in jest:
* Having an uncomfortable sense that having the tools to understand global warming requires a civilization which uses resources to a degree to cause global warming. If you unwind all of that, vast resource use may be synonymous with modern civilization. Then any real solution would be of a scope to make most folks extremely uneasy.)
Thx!
TomB