The world's okay, but we are 'painting ourselves into a corner'

Rather than God,
we need
Superman.

We are, it seems, quickly “painting ourselves into a corner”.

Our absolutely inadequate response to mitigating events leading to climate change is forcing us into the position of playing “God”.

A carefully crafted response that should have ideally begun late last century has not happened and so the world’s exposure to climate change has worsened, rather than lessened.

Subsequently, as the 21^st century unfolds it appears we are going to have no option but resort to God-like technologies to remove greenhouse gases from earth’s atmosphere.

A report from the Huffington Post headed: “World may have to suck gases from air to meet climate goals” warns that emissions will have to drop by 40 to 70 per cent between 2010 and 2050 to give the world a good chance of restricting warming to U.N. targets.