Bill McKibben Thinks Echo-boomers Will Solve Climate Change | Tobin Hack | Big Think

It was acknowledged by several panelists that the human species is doomed in several ways, that the damage is done, that we can adapt and mitigate, but that big climate change is coming.

And then, out of left field, Bill McKibben started talking encouragingly about something funny: young people. Most staffers and volunteers on his 350 campaign, he said, are 25 years old or under – and that’s just fine by him. He likes their attitude. Their feeling is, as McKibben put it: “we know that things are already bad… but we’re not going to moan about it, we’re going to do all we can now.”

Partly, he said, that’s because young people know they’re going to have to “live with this for a long, long time.” But McKibben also thinks it’s partly just the can-doism of youth, which makes them “mature in ways that many of us are not mature.” Could climate change be a puzzle only the youngest of the echo-boomers are emotionally equipped to solve?

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Al Fin: More Oil Seeps Naturally Than from Human Spills

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound released 10.8 million gallons of oil -- or almost 250,000 barrels of oil. But natural oil seeps off California release up to 80 times that amount. And natural seeps in the Gulf of Mexico release twice the amount as the Exxon Valdez every year.

Irony of Ironies: Could Gulf Spill Kill Cap-and-Trade? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The spill has already caused the weaker sisters to run from the notion of voting to support domestic production, as they were never really all that into it. Lawmakers willing to know so little about a scheme as to support it on the notion it would control temperature aren't overly concerned with the issues themselves — let's face it. And the quite-possible inability to get Republicans onto the cap-and-trade bill — making it that much harder to pull off the trick of calling it an energy bill — would be all she wrote.