Bill Nye was interviewed for a few minutes on a CNN segment recently, and it was all he could do to contain his frustration over our collective inertia regarding global warming. It’s happening before our eyes yet we still ask what we should be doing about it.
We’ve known for years! This is what Nye was hinting at when he said there have been colleagues raising concerns and ringing alarm bells FOR YEARS (my emphasis). For decades.
Stop, or greatly reduce emissions of CO2 and CO, don’t close the nuclear power plants, and invest in fusion research. These were the three suggestions he had for Erin Burnett.
Nye said there will be no precipitating event that will finally get our attention and unify our efforts. Things will just keep getting worse until we can’t handle it anymore.
It’s already happening in places. The globe is getting warmer, and people are dying in the heat. Never mind the increased frequency and ferocity of “once-in-a-century– or millenium– storms.” The heat will be—and already is—front and center, and plays a central role in the formation of these behemoth storms.
As for those who badmouth electric vehicles? They need to remember that the power needed to recharge them can be sourced and generated from clean energy. And chances are that these naysayers are somehow beholden to fossil fuel use until there’s no one left, anyway. They’re fossils in their own right.
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