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Here's
the interview marking the beginning of Guy McPherson’s tour or NZ.
Paul
Henry who is a sort of climate change denialist (or would like to be)
is ironically more intelligent and switched-on than all the liberals
at RNZ who deal exclusively in omission and half-truths
Humans
'don't have 10 years' left thanks to climate change - scientist
By
Breanna Barraclough
24
November, 2016
There's
no point trying to fight climate change - we'll all be dead in the
next decade and there's nothing we can do to stop it, a visiting
scientist has claimed.
Guy
McPherson, a biology professor at the University of Arizona, says the
human destruction of our own habitat is leading towards the world's
sixth mass extinction.
Instead
of fighting, he says we should just embrace it and live life while we
can.
"It's
locked down, it's been locked in for a long time - we're in the midst
of our sixth mass extinction," he told Paul Henry on Thursday.
Prof
McPherson is in New Zealand on a speaking tour. His comments come
just days after Climate Change Issues Minister Paula Bennett
appointed a 10-strong team to advise the Government on how New
Zealand can adapt to climate change.
Govt
appoints experts to tackle NZ's climate change problems
But
if Prof McPherson is right, it's a complete waste of time.
"I
can't imagine there will be a human on the planet in 10 years,"
he said.
"We
don't have 10 years. The problem is when I give a number like that,
people think it's going to be business as usual until nine years
[and] 364 days."
Part
of the reason he's given up while other scientists fight on is
because they're looking at individual parts, such as methane
emissions and the melting ice in the Arctic, instead of the entire
picture, he says.
"I
would hate to use the word lying - I think it's far worse than that.
"We're
heading for a temperature within that span that is at or near the
highest temperature experienced on Earth in the last 2 billion
years."
National
Geographic exhibition displays global climate change
But
it's not all doom and gloom. While Prof McPherson says we should give
up on the hope of fixing the climate, it doesn't mean we should stop
living while we can.
"I
think hope is a horrible idea. Hope is wishful thinking. Hope is a
bad idea - let's abandon that and get on with reality instead. Let's
get on with living instead of wishing for the future that never
comes.
"I
encourage people to pursue excellence, to pursue love, to pursue what
they love to do. I don't think these are crazy ideas, actually - and
I also encourage people to remain calm because nothing is under
control, certainly not under our control anyway."
New
Zealand has been criticised for not doing enough to fight climate
change, this month being awarded two Fossil of the Day awards at the
22nd annual UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech.
The
awards were over its failure to live up to its climate promises and
continued use of "dodgy" carbon credits.
enjoy these fine days
ReplyDelete"Paul Henry who is a sort of climate change denialist (or would like to be) is ironically more intelligent and switched-on than all the liberals at RNZ who deal exclusively in omission and half-truths"
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How do you reckon that strange assertion. Certainly my family didn't flock to TVNZ when we waited out the tsunami warnings last month. Perhaps your own intelligence is challenged by the depth of talent at RNZ?
He just know it. We are not prepared. For us is dying taboe and has nothing to do with 'my' life. A lot happens in the world. What most people see here is the daily traffic jam, the office, back home and television. But the news is national. Then publicty for publicity and even more advertising for something you can buy in your stupidmarket , you must buy your hapiness, with sweets, chocolate or antidepressiva. Guy lives of the grid. He knows how fragile fruit is for example and how much better an egg is from a free chicken, so that fruit in the stupidmarket? Always perfect and sparckling. What are we gonna do once that agriculture won't be possible anymore? (I have a list with products that will be very expensive, good to sell) I hear Guy saying 10 years max and another 'thousands of years, a doctor. What an arrogance. We are animals too. Dogs too think they are the leaders in a household and take good care for children. How much years, I don't know, but the whole will make our planet like Venus oRe Mars. My intuïton says Venus. SO weird that, here, no one thinks about it. It doesnt exist. The hype will be over soon. The weather forecaster talked a always about the climate change. The last 4 years, nothing anymore
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