A Climate Museum is a great idea and your presentation through an Ethics Forum is meaningful. As for your question regarding the site for your future museum, I'd like to share this with you. Nothing under heaven is more pliable than water, yet when amassed, nothing on earth can withstand its force. Hurricane(s) Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and Maria had life-altering or life-ending experiences for many. Anthropogenic climate disruption will create " climigration " from the countries on or near the equator poleward and many other local/regional catastrophic weather events. Worldwide climate refugees will either produce the best in our human compassion or the worse if we slip into what is easy: indifference to the suffering halfway across the planet. Many Climate change contrarians have a physics & chemistry educational deficit and so, climate change is not real for them. I believe they also may have an entitlement behavior ( point of view ) that we should live in a " Goldielocks Zone " for ever. Trouble is, the momentum of Anthropogenic climate change we have already generated and continue to force towards producing an articially " Non-Goldielocks Zone " is astounding. The political inertia involving the climate change contrarian mindset is equally astounding. Our addiction to continue burning through fossil fuels will systematically disadvantage societal groups from around the world and make Biosphere One less inhabitable. Replacing carbon based energy with renewable energy sources ( along with combating climate disruption on many other fronts ) is only the beginning towards minimizing the suffering. Albert Einstein once wrote: "The distinction between past, present and future is simply a stubbornly persistent illusion." Meaning of course, we live and experience life in a series of now(s), the present. We have to address the challenge of climate change, now. Best of luck with your great idea for the museum and remember: comfort in numbers is only the delight of the very timid. When you thought you were alone, you were actually with the entire world.
How will the world, ( and more importantly ), our children and grandchildren look back upon the United States' leadership role to meet the Anthropogenic climate disruption " risk management " challenge? I'll tell ya: their choices will be the difference between perfect and pitiful. James Hansen wrote a scientific paper in 1981 about the future forecast he and his team expects from the human influence on the climate and extreme weather events to come. And we have witness and many have experienced first hand catastrophic weather events. James Hansen worked for NASA as one of their lead scientists and at that time, one of NASA's MISSION STATEMENTS was " To understand and protect the home planet." James Hansen later left NASA to focus his energies on global climate change. It was a matter of priorities. But in 2005, NASA deleted this mission statement and deliberately turned its back on BIOSPHERE ONE ( planet earth...the home planet ). Why the shift away from earth? Are we considered expendable? I hope not.
A Climate Museum is a great idea and your presentation through an Ethics Forum is meaningful. As for your question regarding the site for your future museum, I'd like to share this with you. Nothing under heaven is more pliable than water, yet when amassed, nothing on earth can withstand its force.
Hurricane(s) Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and Maria had life-altering or life-ending experiences for many. Anthropogenic climate disruption will create " climigration " from the countries on or near the equator poleward and many other local/regional catastrophic weather events. Worldwide climate refugees will either produce the best in our human compassion or the worse if we slip into what is easy: indifference to the suffering halfway across the planet.
Many Climate change contrarians have a physics & chemistry educational deficit and so, climate change is not real for them. I believe they also may have an entitlement behavior ( point of view ) that we should live in a " Goldielocks Zone " for ever. Trouble is, the momentum of Anthropogenic climate change we have already generated and continue to force towards producing an articially " Non-Goldielocks Zone " is astounding. The political inertia involving the climate change contrarian mindset is equally astounding. Our addiction to continue burning through fossil fuels will systematically disadvantage societal groups from around the world and make Biosphere One less inhabitable. Replacing carbon based energy with renewable energy sources ( along with combating climate disruption on many other fronts ) is only the beginning towards minimizing the suffering.
Albert Einstein once wrote: "The distinction between past, present and future is simply a stubbornly persistent illusion." Meaning of course, we live and experience life in a series of now(s), the present. We have to address the challenge of climate change, now.
Best of luck with your great idea for the museum and remember: comfort in numbers is only the delight of the very timid. When you thought you were alone, you were actually with the entire world.
How will the world, ( and more importantly ), our children and grandchildren look back upon the United States' leadership role to meet the Anthropogenic climate disruption " risk management " challenge? I'll tell ya: their choices will be the difference between perfect and pitiful.
James Hansen wrote a scientific paper in 1981 about the future forecast he and his team expects from the human influence on the climate and extreme weather events to come. And we have witness and many have experienced first hand catastrophic weather events. James Hansen worked for NASA as one of their lead scientists and at that time, one of NASA's MISSION STATEMENTS was " To understand and protect the home planet." James Hansen later left NASA to focus his energies on global climate change. It was a matter of priorities. But in 2005, NASA deleted this mission statement and deliberately turned its back on BIOSPHERE ONE ( planet earth...the home planet ). Why the shift away from earth? Are we considered expendable? I hope not.