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Disaster Needed for U.S. to Act on Climate Change, Harvard's Stavins Says http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1304288423
The U.S. probably won't take significant steps to curb climate change until an environmental disaster sways public view and prompts political action, Robert Stavins of Harvard University said.
"It's unlikely that the U.S. is going to take serious action on climate change until there are observable, dramatic events, almost catastrophic in nature, that drive public opinion and drive the political process in that direction," Stavins, director of Harvard's Environmental Economics Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said today in an interview in Bloomberg's Boston office....
Stavins, an economist, is a member of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said in 2007 that scientists are more than 90 percent certain that humans are causing global warming....
"There's a legit reason for the public to be skeptical about climate change because they don't see it," Stavins said.
Grabbing the public's attention would require a dramatic development, such as a "well-observed melting of parts of polar ice caps that result in some amount of sea-level rise," Stavins said.
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Yeah, whaddaya expect from the public, abstract thinking?
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Do you mean, like the Northwest Passage opening up? Or, like most glaciers receding? Or, like measurable rise in temperatures, worldwide? Or, like permafrost melting? Or, like corporate deniers underwriting a massive disinformation campaign that will ruin the world as we know it?
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