The solemn monkey

It’s nice sometimes to read something that’s shining with optimism. Check it out.

“We Viridians have beaten that clock. There is no need to wait for distant 2012 to declare victory in our war to make green trendy. Green will never get any trendier than it is this year. The atmosphere upgrade is on the way. That process won’t be pretty, but it’s going to happen. The 2012 deadline for Kyoto is already a dead letter, because Kyoto was far too weak and too slow. We are going to see a series of monstrous efforts by large enterprises: private, local, state and national, to save whatever can be saved of the previous natural order. The primary motivator of this effort will be fear. The climate is changing much more quickly and more severely than anyone suspected it would. A rapid, ruthless, headlong clean-tech techno- revolution – in fact, a series of them – is the only global option with a ghost of a chance to save our smoldering planetary bacon.

That’s coming; it is under way.”

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