If we keep emitting trace amounts of CO2, Joe Romm foresees a "staggeringly huge government (for a century and probably much more) to “adapt” to ... a ruined world "

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination To Action? | ThinkProgress

How ironic that denial, driven in large part by conservative fear of big government, has created an “era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays” that will ultimately require somewhat bigger government (for several decades) to prevent catastrophe or, if the deniers truly “triumph,” then staggeringly huge government (for a century and probably much more) to “adapt” to [through a combination of abandonment, triage, and misery] a ruined world
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The Pearl Harbors are here. The Churchills and FDRs aren’t.