Short Takes — 15

We begin to see how the Western Democracies are going to respond to the Climate Crisis.

DEMOCRACY as we knew it, is probably coming to an end. The Climate Crisis is going change our world and the Elites are starting to realize that.

SO, if you needed any further proof that the CLIMATE CRISIS is BAD and getting RAPIDLY WORSE. I offer you these two articles.

One, from the “prestige” newspaper of our Nation’s capital. The other from an influential publication on foreign policy that is read globally.

Humans might need to re-engineer the climate

By the Editorial Board Washington Post April 28, 2024

and,

Democracy Has Run Out of Future — Foreign Policy April 27, 2024

https://archive.ph/5zODL#selection-2987.0-2993.94

The underlying reason for the West’s democratic crisis may be a lost sense of open-ended time.

OMG.

Here’s what WAPO has to say.

“For decades, “geoengineering” was a forbidden subject in climate circles.”

“Talking about adjusting the Earth’s energy balance by, for example, using mirrors, white roofs or aerosols to reflect solar radiation away from the planet and back into space could legitimize a strategy that should be a last resort. Fiddling with the Earth’s thermostat could have unintended…