Andy Revkin: Still alarmist after all these years

A Year on (Dot) Earth - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

This blog is an experiment, aimed at exploring in an interactive, sustained way a single question: How does humanity head toward a population of 9 billion, more or less, with the fewest regrets? Those regrets pile up every day in the thousands of avoidable deaths of poor people from the lack of simple resources like clean water and energy options. They are also piling up invisibly as long-lived heat-trapping gases accumulate in the atmosphere, progressively influencing the climate in ways that legions of climatologists and biologists say are bound to kick back, and kick hard if emissions are not curbed starting soon. And they accumulate ever more as species vanish and valued landscapes and ecosystems erode under growing pressure from humanity’s expanding resource hunger.