You heard it from a Nobel peace laureate – Climate Change overtakes nuclear war . . . . . . . . . . “After World War II, the world was facing a threat from a nuclear war,” Juan Manuel Santos, a staunch environmentalist, told the World Green Economy Summit in Dubai.
“The threat from a nuclear war remains … but we have something worse, which is a certainty. That is climate change,” he said.
“If we don’t act, we will perish. We must act for survival.”
Sure they were the days when science was generally respected and taken seriously. What happened in between then and now to spawn governments that completely ignore the wisdom and advice from respectable science bodies. ?
Calvin in 1987:
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We knew.
In 1987 the biggest problem most of the developed world thought it had was nuclear war.
You heard it from a Nobel peace laureate – Climate Change overtakes nuclear war . . . . . . . . . . “After World War II, the world was facing a threat from a nuclear war,” Juan Manuel Santos, a staunch environmentalist, told the World Green Economy Summit in Dubai.
“The threat from a nuclear war remains … but we have something worse, which is a certainty. That is climate change,” he said.
“If we don’t act, we will perish. We must act for survival.”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/global-warming-eclipses-nuclear-war-as-top-concern–nobel-laureate-12021694
Remember the 50’s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdALFnlwV_o
Sure they were the days when science was generally respected and taken seriously. What happened in between then and now to spawn governments that completely ignore the wisdom and advice from respectable science bodies. ?
Exxon Goes on Trial for Lying About the Climate Crisis
Don’t forget Pogo
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