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“In a memo dated September 17, 1969, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Counselor to President Nixon for Urban Affairs, later Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and US Senator from New York, explained the science of change to Nixon’s Chief Domestic Advisor, John Ehrlichman, and warned that sea levels could rise “by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington. . .” Moynihan then went on to say that “it is possible to conceive fairly mammoth man-made efforts to countervail the CO2 rise (e.g., stop burning fossil fuels),” but that “in any event. . ., this is a subject that the Administration ought to get involved with.”48 The first report of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), published in 1970, devoted an entire chapter to climate change, including a section entitled “Energy output—A disappearing icecap?”49”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“The challenge we face is not (only) to reduce or stabilize concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, but to live in productive relationship with the dynamic systems that govern a changing planet. This is a new challenge because humanity is young and now constitutes an important planetary force in a way that is unprecedented. Anthropogenic climate change is the harbinger of a new world in which humans have become a dominant force on Earth’s natural systems.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“Climate change is occurring and is effectively irreversible on timescales that are meaningful to us. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“Climate change poses threats that are probabilistic, multiple, indirect, often invisible, and unbounded in space and time. Fully grasping these threats requires scientific understanding and technical skills that are often in short supply. Moreover, climate change can be seen as presenting us with the largest collective action problem that humanity has ever faced, one that has both intra- and inter-generational dimensions. Evolution did not design us to deal with such problems, and we have not designed political institutions that are conducive to solving them.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“A 1956 New York Times article quoted Plass as “warning” that “the amount of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere will be so large that it will have a profound effect on our climate.”33 The next year Revelle testified before congress that the rise of CO2 might turn Southern California and Texas into “real deserts,” and that the Soviet Union might become a maritime power in the twenty-first century as a result of the melting of Arctic ice.34 Climate change had arrived in Washington.35”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
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