Is Earth F. Geo Summary

“More or less…” This was Brad Werner’s answer - a complex systems researcher – to a question posed by a journalist at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in 2012. The question being “Is Earth F**ked” [Pg. 449]. Klein claims that this book is optimistic. I don’t think the book itself is optimistic even if that is what the author believes. It seems almost impossible to believe that the future of climate change is an optimistic one. Klein presents this future to be possible though. Her examples and demands for solving this problem are not small it is calling for mass movements to redistribute wealth on the scale of trillions of dollars worldwide. [452] In a nation where we cannot even agree on basic human rights. How will we organize to the
The optimistic part is that some of these worked for a time after periods of intense poverty several democratically elected socialist governments have formed and redistributed large amounts of wealth from natural resource extraction into the poor and middle class. Unfortunately, these governments such as Chile under Salvador Allende or Iran under Mohammad Mosadeegh, were consistently undermined and sabotaged due to foreign backed military coups, assassinations and other forms of foreign interference. [454] So, does this book have an optimistic view at the Climate crisis? Absolutely. Even with mounting evidence that we will continue to miss the goals provided to us by the world’s climate scientists. The fossil fuel industry has already shown that they will not let go of their stranglehold on their profits. To look at this situation and not be filled with an overwhelming sense of despair at the possibility of a positive future is about the most optimistic out there. Will we be able to curb emissions and the extraction mentality or will we as a species pass into extinction as