Roger Hallam - 1/2. The essence of humanist hubris is the...https://www.facebook.com/share/1Dj2ZHHbah/The essence of humanist hubris is the notion every problem can be solved - meaning we are not humans but gods. But, as we are about to discover, we are just human after all. We sit there and let people in charge fuck things up. And then there is no going back.
10 years of hubris gets you 10,000 years of climatic chaos. Not clever.
“What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis | Environment | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer