10 May, 2017

The great climate silence: We are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it

After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink in. 
The greatest tragedy is the absence of a sense of the tragedy. 
Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual.


Read the piece in today’s Melbourne Age by Clive Hamilton - “The great climate silence: We are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it.”

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