CO2 EMISSIONS LEAD TO GREENHOUSE EFFECT AND GLOBAL WARMING, BUT THAT LIFE THREATENING MECHANISM IS JUST A SYMPTOM OF THE ACTUAL ROOT CAUSE AND DIFFICULTY IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM: A VALUE DISTORTION IN OUR SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEM.
9. “I gave the talk at the University of Iowa in 2004 and at the 2005 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This led to calls from the White House to NASA headquarters and I was told that I could not give any talks or speak with the media without prior explicit approval by NASA headquarters. After I informed the New York Times about these restrictions NASA was forced to end the censorship but there were consequences - I have been using the first line of the NASA mission statement “to understand and protect our home planet” to justify my talks. Soon the first line of the mission statement was deleted never to appear again.” - James Hansen - ‘Why I must speak out about climate change?’ (on TED): Watch here
10. “But what’s rather interesting about this, that tells you something about the nature of our society, is that those same CEOs and managers who are trying to convince the public that it’s a liberal hoax know perfectly well that it’s extremely dangerous, that they have the same believes that you and I have, and so they're caught in a kind of an institutional contradiction. As leaders of major corporations they have an institutional role, that is to maximize short-term profit, and if they don't do that they're out and someone else is in, that does do it, so, institutionally speaking it’s not a choice that’s going to happen in the major institutions, so they may know that they’re mortgaging the future of their grandchildren and everything they own will be destroyed but they're caught in a trap of institutional structure; that’s what happens in market systems and a financial crisis is a small example of the same thing; you may know that what you're doing carries a systemic risk but you can't calculate that in your transactions or you're not fulfilling your role and somebody else replaces you, and that’s a very serious problem, it means that we're marching over the cliff (...) so we are essentially saying: let’s kiss each others goodbye.”- Noam Chomsky, ‘How Climate Change Became a Liberal Hoax’: Watch here
11. I distrust the IPCC process because their projections on the warming are so wrong; even their worst case scenario is unrealistic because it doesn't take account of what’s happening in the Arctic and the Arctic temperature is going to go shooting up by 10 degrees or more really quite quickly, and when you get temperatures increasing like that you get the permafrost to thaw away very quickly (...) It’s very much out of their (IPCC’s) comfort zone; they have been working on the basis that things will take 100 years and that seems to pervade their thinking. Then there are lots of procedural constraints. They are only allowed to take papers that are published and peer-reviewed, and then you find that the papers that have been more extreme, scenarios, the more scary ones, don’t get published so there’s a vicious cycle of suppression built into the procedural systems of the IPCC. (..) Remember it’s an INTERGOVERNMENTAL organization.” - ‘AMEG’s Director John Nissen at ARCUS SF’: Watch here
12. "Indeed, the IPCC acts as if there was a carbon budget to divide among countries, whereas the reality is that there is a huge carbon debt to our children, while the situation could become catastrophic any time soon. It appears that the IPCC has been trying desperately to please those with vested interests in maintaining the status quo." - Sam Carana Click here
13. “It's not politicians that can solve problems. They have no technical capabilities. They don't know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere, they don't know how to solve problems. It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants. It's the technicians that give you electricity. That give you motor vehicles. That heat your house and cool it in the summer time. It's technology that solves problems, not politics. Politics cannot solve problems 'cause they are not trained to do so. (...) and the question that's raised by politicians is: How much will a project cost? The question is not ‘how much will it cost’. Do we have the resources? (...) So you see, we have all that, but we're in a monetary system, and in a monetary system there's profit.” - Jacque Fresco on politics versus technology: Watch here
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