Climate change: some reasons for our failures

[joshcryer]

2. "... [can] humankind very rapidly wean itself from [fossil fuels]?"

No.

The article misses one very very important point. The global profiteers, the global managers, the global elites have already decided what they're going to do about climate change. The CIA recently gave us a hint, and you can be very well assured that every top level intelligence report on climate change in every major country in the world and even in smaller developing countries is getting the same message.

"We can avert climate change through geoengineering. It is not a big deal."

The question then becomes, what happens when China or India are facing shortages and other countries like the US or the EU decides that their genetically modified crops can withstand climate change? Do China and India get to put sulphates into the atmosphere after all that R&D or are they forced to buy the GMO crops to persist?

I think there will be an impasse and that ultimately geoengineering will take a back seat as famine scorches the world. After which, of course, it will be implemented, because the weather conditions will simply be too great to deal with and we'll be back to square one.

What is certain though is that no significant quantities of fossil fuels will remain in the ground. Perhaps 5% of all that was ever technologically recoverable.