24 August, 2014

'We are now making the least-worst choices' - Spratt


Concluding his 2013 piece “Is Climate Change Already Dangerous” David Spatt said: “We are now in a world of making the least-worst choices”.

The on-line editor of Climate Code Red and co-author of a book by the same name, Spratt says there is no simple answer to what the world is presently experiencing.

“There is no simple answer, and we do not yet know all the questions in detail, let alone all of the answers. Nobody ever does at the beginning of an emergency response. That’s what makes it an emergency,” he writes.

“But we do now know, with clear evidence that climate change is already “dangerous”, that we are heading towards a “catastrophe”, that we are in an emergency and, yes, we do face “…an unavoidably radical future.

“And we do know from past experience that once societies are in emergency mode, they are capable of facing up to and solving seemingly impossible problems.”, he says.

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