Thursday, May 22, 2014

Cosmos on the climate crisis

We might, unfortunately, be one of those "civilizations that self-destruct," in Tyson's words. Here's Tyson's big statement about it: 
TYSON: In one respect, we're ahead of the people of ancient Mesopotamia. Unlike them, we understand what's happening to our world. For example, we're pumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, at a rate not seen on Earth for a million years. And there's scientific consensus that we're destabilizing our climate. Yet, our civilization seems to be in the grip of denial, a kind of paralysis. There's a disconnect between what we know, and what we do...


"Cosmos" Explains How Global Warming Threatens Civilization as We Know It | Mother Jones

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