The men who liberated the death camps of Nazi Europe inherited a problem not of their generation's making. Many of them died in the effort. The world has always been filled with the horrors of mankind. It always will be. Climate change is our current great fight. We'll win.https://twitter.com/EcoAndrewTRC/status/1179106093739343872 …
We might lose. The Mayans lost. The Easter Islanders lost. The Viking settlers of Greenland lost. Many human societies have knowingly depleted and ultimately destroyed the environments on which their survival depended. The great victories of their storied past didn't save them.
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Optimism is a fine thing, but perverse incentives are terrifyingly powerful; not for nothing do we refer to the tragedy of the commons. Our past attempts to avert this tragedy have met with very mixed results. Their scrupulous study hardly justifies or encourages triumphalism.
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