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Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the present-day United States has lost what commitment it used to have to free education of high quality. Anyone reading the annual surveys of science literacy (another example: fewer than half of Americans know that the earth orbits the sun once a year) has to wonder how badly most people are going to be left behind, further along into the 21st century, whether they too will become "stubborn, apathetic, and perverse" toward a scientific and technological world they must view as magical, beyond their comprehension, accessible only via the right incantations.
Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.
If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.
The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.
