Mark Hertsgaard
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Mark Hertsgaard, called "one of Americas finest reporters" by Barbara Ehrenreich, covers climate change for Vanity Fair, The Nation, and L'Espresso. He is the author of six books, which have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey.
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The posture of the book is prescriptive. It is about what we ought to do. Hertsgaard describes many different projects around the world, e.g. the work in the Netherlands to prevent sea level rise from destroying their country. These exemplary projects then point the way we need to follow.
Here we are some 14 years later. It's not like nothing has happened. Electric cars, electric bicycles, electric lawnmowers, etc. Wind turbines are all over the place, as are solar panels. It looks like CO2 emissions per capita in the USA have dropped maybe 15% since 2010. That is a significant decrease! On the other hand, climate denialism is as rampant as ever. The planetary response to environmental stresses seems to be violence and authoritarianism as much as anything helpful.
Here's a next step of analysis that Hertsgaard didn't really take up. We will adapt to climate change. Mostly far too late, but still. But... how will we adapt? This descent into violence shows that a lot of our adaptation will be stupid and ugly. From a climate perspective though, the key question is: will our adaptation promote mitigation or conflict with it. For humans to solve a problem in a way that makes the problem worse.... we are certainly capable of digging ourselves into pits like that. Can we avoid it?… (mer)