...And If You're A Regular, Working Stiff (hourly, salaried, or entrepreneurial -- and even making millions a year) , then guess who's going to be on the bad end of the stick when it finally gets down to: we do this or we die.
Yah, it's going to be a big feces sandwich, and working people are going to the only ones left, on the flooded, tornadoed, wild fired, or whatever other kind of catastrophic ground that's becoming ever more likely, of late, you might also want to contemplate, to have to take a bite, and swallow it too.
This is so because we all know that, in the most significant of majorities, the very rich are going to do what they've already shown us is likely; as in bugging out, and hunkering down, in whatever, lavishly accessorized to be sure, bunker like, gated community, is the most cost/amenities effective. Whether it will do them any real good, if things do get as bad as they are quite likely to be, or not. And I can assure you, in the bitter end, and most of us working stiffs (on the treadmill to nowhere) are already gone, and they don't have anybody, anymore, to do the "dirty" jobs; well, use your own imagination.
I have to say, though, that I do love that line. It has become a wonderful cliché for me, over the years.
If you check, you'll find that there is still some confusion around where it came from, but as one person said, a few years back, it was from a WW2 war movie, that was done in the fifties. For the life of me, though, I can't quite recall who said it, in what exact movie, but I'm sure it was someone like John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, Van Johnson, or James Whitmore, etc., who uttered it, because I can still hear it clearly in my head.
Anyways... We are not going to be able to do this job, however, precisely because the super rich still think money will save them; no matter what happens to us. And I have to say that this will be one, very Lethal assumption.
Just know this: If the Twaites Glacier goes, and that big Antarctic current, that used to be a big carbon sequestration engine (circulating as it did from very deep water), continues to be a new, carbon source, and most of the Artic ice goes as well, we will see not only many tens of feet of sea rise, but ever more crazy weather to make that even more horribly bad.
Which means that not only will at least a billion people, all around the globe, will be rendered homeless, and as such, refugees on the move, but every major port city in the world will be rendered virtually useless, as well; so, just like Sypher said in "The Matrix," the "Kansas" of our economy is going bye bye.
What I also worry about, though, even after all of the melting has run most of its course, is that, if there then comes to be a much less significant source of temperature differential, at both poles, what then will then happen to other, terribly important atmospheric, and oceanic, currents?
That is to say, what will happen when there is no longer the difference that made our current circulations work the magic, that they have been making, for over a million years at least? The ones that gave us the intricately balanced system, of many sub systems, that allowed us, and everything else, to evolve as it did. Because, at that point, all there will be is hot. And oceans boiling off ever greater amounts of water.
That will fuel something, certainly, if only by water evaporating, and then condensing again when it gets pushed to higher altitudes (assuming it gets pushed); so as to fall back as rain. A situation that, in my opinion, will be sure to do only one thing: put too much rain, in foo few places, and not nearly enough, in too many places.
So the bottom line is this: The lead times to get such tremendous programs designed, planned, and then be readied for execution, are such that we have to start doing a vast array, of multiple things, at the same time. And to do that, we will need access to all of the technological tools that society has made possible, for one and all, to get rich with, in the first place.
And to do that we, and the very rich, are going to have to accept the fact that a divorce is going to be necessary; a divorce where we have to play the part of the wife, who gets the house, while the rich husband gets to keep most of the rest of there cashed out value. A process, certainly, that won't be easy. For either side. But one that will have to bee done if we expect any chance at all, slim though it still might be.
And that, unfortunately, my friends, is just the way it is. Like it or not.
There is an alternative, though, and I sincerely believe I have outlined, at least a portion of it. I can only hope you will come to take it as seriously as the problem itself.
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