An Environment and Climate Update for n00bz

              Take this planet you silly white child, your forefathers effed it up just for you!  

Here are two fairly recent articles that struck me as particularly important as of late.  The first, from the New York Times, is about the Montreal Protocol, a piece of climate legislation, which pushed for the elimination of CFCs (a propellent which is extremely harmful to the ozone layer) upon which there was unanimous international agreement.  The treaty was passed during the Reagan era.  WHAT?  Yeah that's right, even the fucking Reagan administration was down.  Let's see if the current international regime can modify the treaty, and help to crack down on the use of ozone-damaging refrigerants.  It'd be a relatively easy way to buy us some more time climate-wise.  (Side-note: if you don't believe that human beings are doing sufficient damage to the global climate at the moment, you should return to your daily dose of FOX News propaganda, and go fuck yourself).

The second article I'd like recommend is from the Economist, my preferred news-source.  It discusses Geo-engineering, and the various ways that scientists and corporations are working on to slow or even reverse global climate change.  In my opinion, we should hit climate change at the root of the problem, and do our best to slow global population growth by educating females worldwide (the only proven large-scale way to drop population growth).  Although I am a pessimist, to the point that I seriously question the morality of bringing children into this world, I am fairly optimistic about mankind's ability to use technology to, at the very least, stave off the worst elements of global warming with some last minute technological fixes.  Nonetheless, I'd prefer to live in a world without a sulfur choked atmosphere.  Another striking thing about these remedies, which the article also addresses, is their relatively low cost.  This is simultaneously agreeable and worrisome: a single corporation or nation could afford to implement one of these programs.  This means that a global accord involving a massive amount of resources, money and man-power would not be necessary.  Great, so we won't have to wait around for all of the global bureaucracy to come to some sort of feeble agreement while millions of Bangladeshis pour into refugee camps. On the other hand we could be faced with a rogue nation, ridiculously overpopulated Bangladesh in the interest of the example, that decides to take matters into its own hands when the shit hits the fan for most of its constituents.  Read about it, and decide for yourself.

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