'Faster Than We Thought': An Epitaph for Planet Earth [View all]

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'Faster Than We Thought': An Epitaph for Planet Earth

Sometime later this Century, a writer will sit down and attempt to document how his or her grandparents’ generation could have all but ignored the greatest disaster humanity has ever faced.

As she pieces together this saga, she’ll encounter the usual suspects.

The army of paid politicians who carried the water of the fossil fuel plutocrats. Economists, who used bizarre abstractions like discounting the future to make it seem like saving the world wasn’t cost-effective. Environmentalists, who were loath to speak the truth because they didn’t want to be accused of spreading “doom and gloom.” The IPCC and their infrequent and out-of-date on date-of-issue reports, an organization that, by design, was intended to slow-walk the science and muddle it with misguided neoclassical economic incantations.

But the one thing that will stand out as she attempts to figure out how our generation allowed the entire world to sleep walk into Armageddon will be the annual cavalcade of research and headlines saying “XXX is happening far faster than predicted.”

Didn't someone around here notice that?