Saving the Planet

Published in The Express Tribune, August 3^rd, 2015.

An amazing recent article entitled “When the end of humancivilization is your day-job” describes how many climate scientists suffer from psychological trauma because their studies lead to the inescapable conclusion that human beings are destroying the planet, and climate change will create conditions making it impossible for the human civilization to survive. There are two strategies currently being pursued with regards to climate change. One is the ostrich strategy of denial, which claims that there is no such thing, or if there is, it is part of natural geological processes rather than being created by human beings. The second is the band-aid strategy which seeks to make small efforts at relief of major visible problems being caused by climate change. Neither strategy has any hope of success at saving the human civilization in its current form.

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