14 Concepts That Will Be Obsolete After Catastrophic Climate Change

The Washington Post has a great excerpt from The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future : It's 2393. A historian is recounting the collapse of Western civilization due to catastrophic climate change. In her anniversary lecture, she explains how the carbon-combustion complex and blind faith in free markets during the late 20th and early 21st centuries conspired to prevent action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, until it was too late to prevent the Mass Migration of 2093 and the inundation of the world's great coastal cities. But first, she has to introduce a few old concepts and terms that may no longer be familiar to her audience: Bridge to renewables The logical fallacy, popular in the first decades of the 21st century, that the problem of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel combustion could be solved by burning more fossil fuels, particularly natural gas. The fallacy rested on an incomplete analysis, which considered only the physical byproducts of combustion, particularly in electricity generation, and not the other factors that controlled overall energy use and net release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Read about 13 more concepts that will be obsolete after catastrophic climate change here..

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