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The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI
(as the reference I saw said, "the title is a come-on".)
and the follow-up (you can just watch the latter, it is essentially a re-do of the original which has companion videos that explore the issues in much more detail):
How It All Ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
I haven't watched the companion videos yet. One potential hole that I can spot with the reasoning--which he may have covered--is that it's possible that we could take decisive action and _still_ get completely screwed by climate change. It's even possible that taking decisive action could cause things to get worse than they would have otherwise. I personally consider these to be low-probability possibilities...but they should be explicitly acknowledged.
The other possibility that's worth mentioning is that taking action can help us to solve other problems than "just" the consequences of climate change (e.g., unfortunate dependencies on unstable countries). Then again, he did say he was simplifying to the worst case.
Anyway, it's worth at least checking out the first link.
(as the reference I saw said, "the title is a come-on".)
and the follow-up (you can just watch the latter, it is essentially a re-do of the original which has companion videos that explore the issues in much more detail):
How It All Ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
I haven't watched the companion videos yet. One potential hole that I can spot with the reasoning--which he may have covered--is that it's possible that we could take decisive action and _still_ get completely screwed by climate change. It's even possible that taking decisive action could cause things to get worse than they would have otherwise. I personally consider these to be low-probability possibilities...but they should be explicitly acknowledged.
The other possibility that's worth mentioning is that taking action can help us to solve other problems than "just" the consequences of climate change (e.g., unfortunate dependencies on unstable countries). Then again, he did say he was simplifying to the worst case.
Anyway, it's worth at least checking out the first link.
