Please share this video with all your skeptic friends. And thanks to Richard Reiss, over at Artist As Citizen, for sending it my way.
As I mention, in my response to Richard’s earlier comment, this video reminds me of Pascal’s Wager. I have always felt a kinship with Pascal’s thinking. The man is practical. We need that kind of no nonsense thinking to bring the climate change skeptics along.
Excellent argument. One addition… instead of relying on just governments to get us out of this, we also use Sustainable Standards which will keep the world of manufacturing honest and in line and if we’re wrong, then we end up with that pollution free planet that the hippies always wanted.
I’ll be passing it along.
Thanks Mary.
And thanks for being the champion of such an important cause! Standards keep coming up in all my conversations with other environmentalists.
I enjoyed this. Never would have thought of the big picture that way
Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan
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I am always amazed at the diversity of views, and at the richer picture that can evolve as a result. It’s the big elephant metaphor. To get in touch with the truth (the big elephant) it takes many people.
It’s an interesting and well presented argument. Thanks for posting it up.
If I were to be a little cynical however, I might say that the 2×2 matrix is a little coarse to deal with the complexities of the argument. The doom scenario presented in the bottom right quadrant is extreme, and so is the top right box which predicts a global economic collapse.
The reality is that the outcomes are more likely to be somewhere in the middle, and we need to fully understand that middle. Presenting extreme outcomes is only likely to distort thinking, even though their possibility should not be ignored.
I recently wrote something about extremist climate change views and the problems that they present: http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2007/12/21/climate-extremists-%e2%80%93-please-keep-it-real/