Okay, like you I find myself “more disturbed by the greed and stupidity than by impending climate change.” And like you I believe (know) there are big problems arising from the fact that working on climate change is, apparently, a lost cause. I know this very well, believe me. The psychic rewards I receive are generally degrading. Like you I am a bit conflicted about the fact of being pretty generous. I don’t believe the current political class of this world can be of any help in achieving my quest-like dream of serious climate change action and human rights resolution, but at the same time I can do nothing else than hope that these people will somehow come to their senses and start advocating new policies that would be based more on wisdom than on the good, old growth imperative and general warlikeness which I dread so much.

I have not read any of Jared Diamond’s work, but I’ve heard a lot about him. The same goes for James Lovelock: not read him but heard about and read up on his work.

It’s an interesting website you’ve got there. I am especially thinking of the perspective that global warming may come as good news to people in the far north. This is true. I live in Norway, and there can hardly be any doubt that the climate here has sub-arctic to more continental over the past 20 years. It can only mean that the climate zone of southern Europe is changing to the worse, and that we can expect desertification to occur. Now, a lot of people are going to be affected by this. They are going to have to adapt or start moving. This is where the social problems start: how many borders are the climate refugees of the future going to have to push against? From this problem a lot of other problems materialize. Which kinds of policies are we going to have to expect to be put in place as desperate masses of climate refugees are beginning to opt for a move on? As it is: I have no reason to believe these political measures will turn out to be humane.

My views are on the website above.