Alarmist John Mecklin weighs in

Miller-McCune | Article | The New New Media

Clearly, the fossil fuel era is at an end, and we’re watching its death throes, with oil company executives and their political vassals cast in the role of frustrated whale-oil procurers and salesmen. Because of the realities of global warming — the need not just to reduce industrial-scale carbon dioxide emissions but to eliminate them — the continued burning of oil, natural gas and coal for power represents slow global suicide, the equivalent of a late-stage cirrhosis patient drinking Wild Turkey. And for all its collective selfishness and tribalism, humanity will not, I think, choose to die by its own hand.
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There is no real scientific debate: If the Earth is to avoid catastrophic climate change, the shift away from carbon needs to begin almost immediately and be largely completed over the next three decades.

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Mecklin holds a master in public administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University.