On February 10, 2007 at 09:11 PM, Stever Robbins wrote;

“Sadly, we’ve known about the consequences of reckless environmental policy for decades. It was always “let’s save the planet for our children,” which let us psychologically ignore the problem, thus saving our standard of living for us, while letting our children fend for themselves someday in the future.

The not-so-funny part is that even as far back as the Limits to Growth study in 1972, it was clear that under many different scenarios, large problems will start to occur by 2100. Maybe that’s “our children” to someone over 60, but even then, a 20-year-old could expect to be alive well into the problem time.

Now it’s looking like the problem may be here a lot sooner than we thought, and we’ve only ourselves to blame.

What can we actually do? The Kyoto treaty seems to think that reducing emissions to 1990 levels will somehow help. How? If 1990 levels were safe, we wouldn’t have a problem. We actually need a reduction to 1890 levels, and I don’t see anyone on the planet being willing to make that reduction. We’d rather die in 20 years than reduce our standard of living today.”