Global Cooperation or Competition
Speed Up The Pace Or Lose The Race
I encourage you to read the opinion piece I reference here. (link below)
Jeff Goodell makes the case that our infrastructure was not built to function well in the climate we have today as average temperatures trend upward, the rate of increase is rising – it ain’t gonna get better ever, well not in decades if we acted appropriately. How bad it gets depends on what we do.
We are doing good things just not fast enough. Unfortunately, without the direction, coordination, and cooperation only great leadership can generate, left essentially to market forces, it will not happen fast enough. At a point like this, when there is, with little doubt a looming global catastrophe caused by climate change is already taking place, competition cannot provide anything but an anchor. Efforts of oil companies to slow advances of alternate energy sources should be, at this unique point in time, illegal. What climate deniers must do is recognize they are part of the problem. Lead or get out of the way. Goodell concludes,
“...In the end, addressing the climate crisis is not about building better technology. It’s much bigger than that. We need to rebuild our world. Fast-rising temperatures and more extreme weather are forcing us to rethink everything about how we live – where we get our energy, how we grow our food, how we build our cities, and, most importantly, who we vote for.
The sooner we stop clinging to the old ways and focus on building a smarter, more sustainable, more equitable future for everyone, the better off we – and every living thing on this planet – will be.
What has already been lost during the climate crisis is a tragedy. But what can be won in this fight is worth imagining too.”
Jeff Goodell CNN Published 10:33 AM EDT Fri July 12, 2024
Opinion: We built our world for a climate that no longer exists | CNN
Read his piece to learn why.
God ain’t gonna do it for us. He ain’t gonna show us the way out of the desert. We do it, or it doesn't get done. All hands on deck. Now. Global Cooperation. There are so many good things happening as this opinion piece tells us. But infrastructure failures are increasing almost in sync with the rising heat. We cannot wait for market economics to make the call. That’s what an unthinking, unfeeling machine might do. Reacting won’t cut it. Bold, proactive action fueled by global cooperation will. It must.