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isn’t sure how much more encouragement she can take.
In this mood she feels like the intrepid scientist in an old disaster movie, the one nobody ever listens to:
overheated planet will manifest itself many ways, that while polar areas heat up, temperate areas are likely to see an increase in storm patterns.
“It’s very common,” she says, “mistaking weather for climate. Weather simply reflects climate in a certain time and place.”
One hundred percent of legitimate climate scientists believe the world to be on the verge of irreversible collapse, but yes, a small percentage remain unconvinced that human activity is the primary cause of the potentially devastating rise in greenhouse gases and global temperature.
“Okay, so here’s my real question.” The man leans in imploringly. “Why do y’all even go to work? Why not just empty out all y’all’s bank accounts, get a bunch a cocaine, rent a suite in Vegas, and go out in a big ol’ science orgy?” Anna smiles. “I take it you’ve never been to a climate conference.” The man’s eyes sparkle. “Why, you are funny,
Among climate scientists, especially those who have spent years in the field, they jokingly refer to it as “pretraumatic stress disorder,” but the feelings themselves are no joke: anger, hopelessness, depression, panic—a recurring nightmare in which you see the tsunami on the horizon but can’t convince anyone to leave the beach.
An ignorant orange grifter was elected president and turned science denial into official government position.
Only one person who fits, "ignorant orange grifter who was elected president" but what others presidents or politicians were/are ignorant, grifter or science deniers?
profanity-laced tirades about more successful authors who wrote “derivative bullshit.”
Jeremiah smiles: well-meaning white liberals telling a shy gay brown kid to go antagonize a bunch of small-town southern police officers.
each American child brought into the world means another fifty-eight metric tons of carbon dioxide. To offset the carbon footprint of one more American baby, 684 teenagers would have to become impeccable recyclers who gave up air travel for the rest of their lives.
how you think we’re all doomed and that people are an infection and babies destroy the planet and how everything we do makes it worse, the corrupt politicians and businesspeople looting the world as it falls apart.”
“But it seems to me,” Jeremiah says, choosing his words carefully, “that you shouldn’t give up hope until you’ve done everything you can.”
This was my main take away from the book
how demoralizing it must be to see those same adults shrug helplessly at the backward, illogical politics, to act as if nothing can be done when clearly everything can be done. “I guess that’s what I wanted to ask you,” Jeremiah says, “if you think we’ve done everything we can?”
