'Terrible news' highlights man's inability to deal with reality

It is depressing to repeatedly read of man’s inability to psychologically deal with the causes of climate change and subsequently act to mitigate those triggers.

A story published in the New Yorker – “Terrible News About Carbon and Climate Change” – says: “We’ve failed collectively”.

Nicholas Thompson points to last week’s passing of the 400 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations which, he says, is “In some way it was a meaningless milestone”.

“Still, the number should shake us, if not shock us. We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were jungles in northern Canada”, he wrote.

From an idea to a needed social force

Beneath the Wisteria began as an idea, but now has become a social force.

And, it is worth noting, that is as it should be.

The environmental movement, of which Beneath the Wisteria is a part, was once purely a movement of the people, but with the passing of time it has been infiltrated it has been an organized arm of the “responsible men” and subsequently less effective, particularly in America.

A New Yorker story headed: “When the Earth Moved” discusses that change and sums up saying, “To turn concern into action requires politics. The science of carbon emissions is there. The politics is not.”