We can’t seem to win on the going green front.
PBS interviewed a scientist just last night who offered up unsettling opinions on where we stand with regard to the 1.5C threshold and his view that our environment may not be as forgiving or robust when it comes to handling the amount of greenhouse gases we continue to spew into the atmosphere.
With regularity, we read conflicting opinions on the benefits of electric vehicles—various voices proclaim that they are aren’t the solution but now the problem. One report claims wind and solar account for a significantly growing percentage of energy output in this country, while another badmouths and minimizes these efforts.
On closer inspection, one might discover that the badmouthing is being done by people working for or benefiting from their association with the fossil fuel industry, an industry which might claim it’s taking the hint and trying to diversify but in reality is still dragging its feet and reaping the benefits in a world reluctant to curb its thirst for oil and gas. It all depends on who’s authoring and funding a study.
Many can probably concede as legitimate the alarms a majority of scientists have been sounding for a very long time now, and that they aren’t out to lunch or playing Chicken Little. They’re looking at data and trends and trying to tell us that we need to act now, up our game, if we want to keep living on a planet that won’t drive its highest achieving life form—the one with the best brain– to extinction.
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