Author Nathanial Rich on climate change: "Long-term disaster is the best-case scenario"

[CousinIT]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/author-nathaniel-rich-sounds-the-alarm-on-climate-change

Floods, wildfires, skies filled with smoke and ash—it’s been a summer full of alarming signs of climate change. This week journalist and novelist Nathaniel Rich joins Joe Hagan on Inside the Hive to discuss the looming catastrophe we’ve known about for decades but have consistently failed to slow, let alone stop. Should we take the climate fight to politicians and corporations, or is our system too hopelessly broken to respond to the earth’s rising temperatures? How much do individual choices like eating vegan or driving electric cars really help? The author of Losing Earth: A Recent History talks about his personal response as he paints a portrait of ignorance and bad faith among the powers that be. Rich also suggests new ways to change and deepen our relationship to our planet in crisis—including the power of fiction.

(there is evidently more somewhere but I REFUSE to turn off content trackers and ad-blockers to get to it)

[llashram]

1. ouch

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the bugs are everywhere. The fires, wowI won't go there. The next generation behind the millennials, pissed. Asserting political, financial and military dominance in favour of short term greed is insane. The planet is fighting back. Our spaceship is a sentient organism. The poisons, the plastic island(s). Climatologically, we're stressing home. The storms, droughts, resources to combat both running low.

Totally agree...