[MCN] Reminiscent of Greta Thunberg's critique of "the way we live"

[Lance Olsen]

PNAS first published November 7, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116 <https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116>

Lasting coastal hazards from past greenhouse gas emissions <https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/11/06/1917051116>
Tony E. Wong

The emission of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere is a by-product of modern marvels such as the production of vast amounts of energy, heating and cooling inhospitable environments to be amenable to human existence, and traveling great distances faster than our saddle-sore ancestors ever dreamed possible. However, these luxuries come at a price: climate changes in the form of severe droughts, extreme precipitation and temperatures, increased frequency of flooding in coastal cities, global warming, and sea-level rise (1, 2). 

 This is the price we pay for the luxury of about 200 y of relatively unchecked greenhouse gas emissions.

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“ 'Friends,' said he, 'the taxes are indeed very heavy, and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly  ....   "   

"Away then with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families   ....  "      

Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” (1758). [The classic Franklin summary of his advice from Poor Richard's Almanac.] 
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/52-fra.html

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