Eco-nut Bill McKibben compares carbon dioxide to Hitler; claims planet is "disintegrating"; claims CO2 will make the next century either "miserable" or "impossible"

The Long-Distance Climate Campaigner - NYTimes.com

It’s as if you had a conference before the onset of World War II and Hitler’s taken over half [of Europe] and everybody’s like, “Well, our cost-benefit analysis shows it’d be better to spend the next 25 years developing some great tanks and then it would be easier to roll through, or maybe it shows that Hitler won’t be such a bad guy after all or whatever. Thank god there were some Winston Churchills around who just said, okay, we’re going for it.
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The basic issue of the planet right now is that it’s disintegrating. That’s even more basic than the fact that we have to keep developing and people need energy and all that. There’s no way anyone is going to develop anything, including energy or anything else, if their whole freaking country is washing away.
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There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.