Friday, June 10, 2011

Father of LEED: Humans ‘blissfully unaware’ of coming climate crisis | SmartPlanet
NEW YORK — Rob Watson stood up, strode toward the podium, turned 180 degrees on his heels, scanned the audience, let out a deep sigh, and said:

“We’re a little bit in denial about how bad things are.”

His voice, normally booming, trailed off, as his upper lip raised up in disgust with the words he just uttered. His gaze dropped to the row of people immediately in front of him. He let out another sigh.
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But if politics and the status quo continue to trump science, humans are in for a rude awakening, he said.

“We’re going to be a bad biological experiment..."
YouTube - Rob Watson, Father of LEED, Talks Green
[Watson: "Buildings are literally the worst things that humans do to the planet"]

1 comment:

BenV said...

We are blissfully unaware of the coming climate crisis. Because all the talk is about warming when we are going into 30 years of colder temperatures.