[MCN] Is the social cost of carbon just as accurately expressed as the social cost of comfort and convenience?

[Lance Olsen]

“Someday I must tell my son what I have done. My comfortable, safe life is in large part a product of the internal combustion engine. Fossil fuels power the trains that take us to the beach, the factories that make his plastic bucket and spade, the lights I switch off when I kiss him good night.

“I cannot deny my son or myself the ease of modern life, and I have no wish to isolate him from friends and family by insisting on radical changes. A carbon-free life seems a solitary one: no travel to see grandparents, awkward refusals of invitations, precious time with friends replaced by gardening, canning, mending, building, working. I search for political solutions, an advocacy muted by the cowardice of my personal choices. In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.”

Kate Marvel, Ph.D., physicist, climate scientist, currently at Project Drawdown

https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/

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“A team of heavyweights in climate science including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying ‘Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …’ and they end it by saying, ‘we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.’”

https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/




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