Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.
Graciela ChichilniskyThe consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.
Graciela ChichilniskyClimate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.
Graciela ChichilniskyThe new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.
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