Maybe there’s someone out there who can put a stop to it, but we’re waiting till the countdown clock is a millisecond away from zero to act
I’m a huge fan of disaster movies. World -ending asteroid hurtling toward Earth ? Moon falling out of orbit? Massive alien attack? Put it in my veins. It’s not so much that I love the death and destruction of it all. It’s more the uniting-humanity element of the apocalypse genre that speaks to me—the president, just before climbing into a jet to give the space invaders hell, making a rousing speech that will mark a new era of global co-operation.
One explanation is a species-wide form of cognitive dissonance—the discomfort that arises when you hold two conflicting beliefs. To wit: We know climate change is an imminent threat, but we also continue to rely on oil—the burning of which is the primary cause of climate change. To help ease our discomfort, we come up with all sorts of excuses:
Cognitive dissonance is a generous explanation, of course. You could just as easily call it greed. And indeed, money is a powerful motivator—for governments, for investors and for consumers, too.Emma Graney’s profile of Suncor CEO Rich Kruger Here’s the thing, though: Burning fossil fuel is not the most economic way to generate power — not when you actually account for the costs associated with the effects of climate change, a bill that’s going to come due sooner rather than later. Oil producers, however, aren’t forced to bear those costs — future generations will be. In the meantime, Suncor et al will be allowed to continue selling oil even as the world quite literally burns down around them.
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