Bill McKibben's article 'A World at War' (newrepublic.com) is interesting but the post on LinkedIN ' Civilian Defense in the age of Climate Change' is closer to the truth.In Bill McKibben's article on climate change, A World at War (newrepublic.com) is the latest in using the simile of World War II in comparing it to the future events of climate change. By using the analog, We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII. He hopes as the dangers grow a uniting of the populace will to overcome adversities will happen again as it did from 1936 to 1945 against fascism. Here as elsewhere, we are trying to define an unknown, climate change by using metaphors to a known example, the last major human global conflict. How can we face the unknown and pretend its something we did before from the lessons learned, examples used or if the metaphor even fits. Is it not when armies, navies, countries or cultures try this that they fail and fail badly? We are led by developed nations that have never learned the limits of the carrying capacity of their cultures in relationship to their countries size. Much older human cultures have learned the hard way to the limits of their growth and the success of their adaptability. Read more: goo.gl/Bd4WDm
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