It's our evolutionary brain. When will climate advocates get this? Bill McKibben, perhaps the most eloquent climate change communicator, is at his wit's end. Like James Hansen, it's become obvious to McKibben that, Copenhagen notwithstanding, politicians are treating climate change as "just another political problem." That's the real impediment, he insists. Thus, facing down man-made climate change, McKibben asserts, demands extraordinary, timely action, on the order of how the U.S faced down fascism:
The best human analog to the role physics is playing here may be fascism in the middle of the last century. There was no appeasing it, no making a normal political issue out of it. You had to decide to go all in, to transform the industrial base of the country to fight it, to put other things on hold, to demand sacrifice. Yet it's all too obvious that we're not dealing with it that way.
Bill, ...
