Bruce Sterling on Global Warming
Thursday, November 03, 2005 - Topic(s)
World Changing interviewed science fiction author Bruce Sterling about global warming. I was particularly taken by the following exchange.With Arctic ice melting and the worst hurricane season in recorded history, are we past the point where mitigation of global climate change is going to have much of an effect?
The climate crimes we've already committed aren't much compared to what's coming down the pipe. It's pretty cynical to write off mitigation when we haven't as yet even tried it. It may well be that the roof is on fire, but that doesn't make it good policy to chop up the walls and floors and add them to the blaze.
