Thedogdrinkscoffee

I like your optimism, but their Supreme Court is captured and the Constitution and rule of law is dead.

Let's build a Canada that omits the US.

Save us all? Now who is delusional.

most economists say will ultimately be borne to some degree by U.S. consumers and businesses.

Some degree = 100%

Unfortunately?

Overly scared

A curious term. We knew what we had to do a long time ago, but didn't.

Now that we're on a likely terminal path, we're suddenly willing to try unknown, unproven radical treatments and the only comfort we have is that without such radical interventions we're already dead, so there is very little left to lose.

Edit: I'm not so much against SRM as I am disapointed we didn't do the right things when we could have.

Well, I feel better now don't you?

But Krugman’s forecast for such a system being introduced in the United States is a clear, “No. Or at least not for a long time …” due to two main obstacles: first, the power of the US financial sector, which "would never allow a public system to compete with its products (…) especially if the public system is superior”.

Now let's hear from the soon to be tazered economists trumpet the beauty of free markets, deregulation and competition!

I'm aware. I'm well informed. I don't think there is anything new anyone could say that could terrify me any more than I already am. Now it's just the creeping and leaping realization that our fears were correct as events prove worse than our models predicted.

Humanity will likely survive climate change.

I like your optimism, but I don't share it. We honestly don't know, one way or the other. What we do know is that human extinction in on the table and growing in probability. When I look at human actions as our cumulative knowlegde of these risks grew, well, I'm not exactly confident our species will make it.

It's where I go to cry when it's not raining. :(

It's ok. I'm already terrified.

Hammock

All's fair in love and war.