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We have known about climate change for a long time. A group of professors argue in an essay for The Conversation that we are "choosing to destroy" our planet and ourselves.
The essay was written as the world prepares for the upcoming COP 27 conference, the latest of the UN's annual Climate Change summits.
The world's leading climate scientists have warned of the dangers of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions for decades, and the US government and Exxon have been aware of it for decades. Today's children and future generations are condemned to live on a hostile planet.
Their answer is frightening.
The experts write that "endless economic growth fueled by fossil energy is so fundamental and common sense it cannot be questioned."
Fossil fuel reliance has become both a lived and ideological way of global life. Fossil fuels are much more than just tools. To question their dominance is to question the fabric of society.
This has proved to be a powerful political tool. The working class was galvanized by Donald Trump's promise to revive the coal industry. Coal became a symbol for a way of life that was taken away when the facts were out. The coal industry was unable to be brought back by Trump because it is no longer viable.
Some solutions were offered by the experts. They say the answer has to be a contraction of rich economies until they can be sustainable.
Since 1977 that has been out of reach for us.
A society is going to destroy itself. Watching The Conversation is both fascinating and horrifying.
There is more on climate change, and it is a scam.
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