The New Yorker has published an excellent 3-part series on climate change called “The Climate of Man.” The first two parts are online now; the third should be showing up shortly. It’s chilling and freaky and it points to a Jared Diamond-like conclusion that humanity, and in particular the United States, have decided to totally ignore all warnings and drive the world into disaster and death.
Quite honestly, I’m looking forward to it. Most of these things are looking to happen, or start to happen, some time in my lifetime: we’ll see bigger hurricanes, encroaching desert, weird sea current changes, malaria spreading northwards… It’ll be exciting and I’ll get to be smug about it and say “I told you so.”
Whoo yeah!
Secretly Ironic 