13/And finally, the biggest and most important way we Americans try to preserve the illusion of control is by simple denialism. Many Americans pretend that climate science is more uncertain than it really is, or that climate scientists are dishonest, etc.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/climate-of-complete-certainty.html …
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14/It's all just an illusion. America is NOT in the driver's seat when it comes to climate change, and it's time for us to acknowledge that horrible, gut-wrenching fact. Because it is a fact.
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(surely it can't be just throwing our hands in the air and reverse emissions caps on cars?)
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(at least China has a major incentive to reduce its emissions and grow green since its coastal megacities will potentially be destroyed by rising seas).
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I have this nagging suspicion that if this is a big prisoner dilemma game, some have reached the conclusion that in the end they're better off not cooperating.
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I think it was that, now it's just up to them, with us pretending we still matter.
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I don't know what to think of the notion that the future of humanity is being decided in the backrooms of Zhongnanhai.
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I know what to think. "It sucks. And yet it's true."
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They have proven to be very competent when it comes to their national interest.
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One some level, it’s the same calculation Mao made about a US-USSR nuclear war.
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