Stephen Hawking’s catastrophic end for Planet Earth

[marmar]

by Paul B. Farrell


Yes, Stephen Hawking says Planet Earth is headed for a “catastrophic ending.” The good news, he wants you to become a hero, save the world. Maybe work for the World Bank, United Nations on climate change, maybe NASA or Peace Corps. Except they’re all chasing a no-win scenario. An impossible dream with no solution. Why? Overpowering opposition.

So go work for the opposition? For someone we’re blaming as the cause of global warming. Yes, join and change their culture from the inside: Big Oil, Big Ag, the GOP, Koch billionaires, far-right conservatives, and all their climate-science-denying donors and lobbyists. Yes, maybe you’ll be lucky, a new savior changing the deniers from within ... and save Planet Earth before it’s too late. The clock is ticking faster, louder, but since all the science deniers rally around a rigid faith in a capitalist ideology, change from within is probably a dead end too.

Work for leftist idealists? Or hard-right ideologues? Unfortunately both are headed for the same “catastrophic ending” Hawking sees for Planet Earth in the “not-too-distance future.”

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The human race is “trapped in a vicious circle” according to the World Bank’s agriculture manager, “we will need to grow 50% more food by 2050 to feed 9 billion people ... but agriculture, which is paradoxically vulnerable to climate change, generates 25% of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change.”

This is essentially a no-win scenario, a zen koan, the ultimate question that has no real answer: The more food “we grow using conventional methods, the more we exacerbate the problem. It’s time for a climate-smart agriculture. But first we must address a few manmade problems.” So here are the World Bank’s four obstacles that must be solved before we can save Planet Earth from the “catastrophic ending:” ..................(more)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stephen-hawkings-catastrophic-end-for-planet-earth-2015-07-09?link=mw_home_kiosk

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1. This message is lost on the masses

they are too busy being consumers to be bothered with news like this. And even if they read this article they wouldn't change in time.

[cprise]

2. Baby boomer yuppies did this already. Remember?

They birthed a fire-breathing oligarchic police state (with really, really good TV PR commercials backed by ukulele cumbaya music).

[burrowowl]

3. The video by a Young Man

The Lie We Live is very good relating to the problem laid out by Hawkins. Edited to correct video title.