Climate Shifts Aren’t Limited to the Weather

New York Times ^ | August 2, 2017 | by Thomas L. Friedman

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I have a simple view of governing today: We are in the middle of not one but three climate changes at once to which government must help citizens respond — and Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue and China does.

Here is what I mean: We are in the middle of a change in the climate of the climate. We are going from “later” to “now.” In the past you could fix any climate/environmental problem later or now. But today later is officially over. Later will be too late. At some point, the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible.

We are the middle of a change in the “climate” of globalization. We are going from an interconnected world to an interdependent one, and in such a world your friends can hurt you faster than your enemies.

And lastly we’re in the middle of a change in the “climate” of technology.

This is so dangerous. When the pace of change accelerates in climate, technology and globalization all at once, small errors in leadership navigation can have huge consequences. It’s like a 747 pilot who enters the wrong navigational coordinates. You can find yourself so far off course that the pain of getting back will be staggering.

We have such a pilot. It is time for the adult Republicans and Democrats in Congress to come together and take the helm.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Texas Eagle]

Here is what I mean: We are in the middle of a change in the climate of the climate. We are going from “later” to “now.” In the past you could fix any climate/environmental problem later or now. But today later is officially over. Later will be too late. At some point, the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible.

And they say marijuana use is a victimless crime.

[Sir Napsalot]

I read the piece earlier ...... (eye roll)

Too stupid to comment on it.

[freedumb2003]

When you have nothing to say it is ALWAYS time to pull out the old “climate warming the sky is falling” topic.

I know enough programming — I will bet I could write an article generator which could crank these our endlessly. Maybe the NYT already has one too and just rotates writer names.

[Da Coyote]

To the writer of the idiocy:
Let’s see your physics credentials, MSM buttwipe.
Then we’ll discuss.
Those of use with real credentials will wipe the floor with both cells of your primitive brain.

[Red Badger]

He’s stuck on stupid.......................

[\/\/ayne]

I have a simple view of governing today...

Yes, you do.

[Paladin2]

A pic of a retard?

[Olog-hai]

It’ll take a miracle for Tom Friedman to wake up.

[entropy12]

Climate change goes on since earth was born 4.5 Billion years ago. There have been ice ages followed by global warming to melt the ice. These cycles repeat non-stop. Way before since man burned oil & coal and had automobiles.

To deny climate change is to deny science. Question should be how much of climate change is man made. No one knows!

[Wuli]

Idiota.

[Tench_Coxe]

Isn’t this the same guy who thinks it would be better if the US were governed by a system like they have in China?

[Leaning Right]

> At some point, the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible. <

We must act on Global Warming for this reason alone! Except that Global Warming is not causing the deforestation of the Amazon.

From the link below (odd that there is no mention of Global Warming/Climate Change in the article, none at all):

By the 2000s more than three-quarters of forest clearing in the Amazon was for cattle-ranching.

The result of this shift is forests in the Amazon were cleared faster than ever before in the late 1970s through the mid 2000s. Vast areas of rainforest were felled for cattle pasture and soy farms, drowned for dams, dug up for minerals, and bulldozed for towns and colonization projects. At the same time, the proliferation of roads opened previously inaccessible forests to settlement by poor farmers, illegal logging, and land speculators.

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html

[econjack]

...later transferred to Brandeis University and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies...

Come on, people! summa cum laude in Mediterranean studies, he must be an expert on climate change.

[Vic S]

[goodnesswins]

He got PAID to write this?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Now that’s the portrait of a great thinker.

[M Kehoe]

I just wasted 30 seconds that I will never get back.

5.56mm

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Those of use with real credentials will wipe the floor with both cells of your primitive brain.

The tragic thing is that there are so many people with real credentials who buy into this crap. And the average man can't parley with them, at least not on their own terms.

[publius911]

Too stupid to comment on it.

Agree.

Movin' right along...