Why We're All Screwed. And Why You Want Your Children to be Canadian

[jamesq]

The ever astute Gwynne Dyer, on what climate change is likely to do to us.

http://www.tvo.org/podcasts/bi/video/BI_Lecture_20090509_834122_GwynneDyer_320x240_304k.mp4

Comments

[jamesq]

Happily, I'll likely not live to see the worst of it. Sucks for you younger folk though.

And who knows, maybe we'll figure out how to solve the problem. Humanity does have a way of pulling it's collective ass out of the fire when things are really bad.

[devoidofthought.livejournal.com]

I curse my interest in environmental science (but only because I am the worst chemist EVER).

[teilani.livejournal.com]

If that wasn't Dyer's Climate Wars lecture that he delivered for Ideas, it's certainly based on it. He's an exceptional individual who generally provides very interesting food for thought - no matter how unsettling.

[danceintheabyss.livejournal.com]

Scared. the. piss. out. of. me.
I don't want my baby growing up to that mess, no way, no how.

[catalytic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're pretty much fucked. When the survival of the species is dependent upon the superpower leaders agreeing on something you pretty much just have to write it off and start stockpiling food.