James Lovelock: “Enjoy life while you can” because the looming catastrophe of climate change, “is unstoppable.”

Below is a another quote from climate scientist James Lovelock. But first, a quick question:

How much of $810M — proceeds from the ¢1 sale tax increase— do you think Palm Beach County is spending to combat climate change and rising sea levels? The answer will surprise you. 

James Lovelock has an impressive background as you can read about on Wikipedia.

Reporter Decca Aitkenhead at The Guardian interviewed James Lovelock and published this very depressing news for supporters of “sustainability”, “resiliency” and those on the front lines combating rising sea levels, global warming, and climate change:


On the day we meet, the Daily Mail has launched a campaign to rid Britain of plastic shopping bags. The initiative sits comfortably within the current canon of eco ideas, next to ethical consumption, carbon offsetting, recycling and so on – all of which are premised on the calculation that individual lifestyle adjustments can still save the planet. This is, Lovelock says, a deluded fantasy. [emphasis added] Most of the things we have been told to do might make us feel better, but they won't make any difference. Global warming has passed the tipping point, and catastrophe is unstoppable.
     “It’s just too late for it,” he says. “Perhaps if we’d gone along routes like that in 1967, it might have helped. But we don’t have time. All these standard green things, like sustainable development, I think these are just words that mean nothing. I get an awful lot of people coming to me saying you can’t say that, because it gives us nothing to do. I say on the contrary, it gives us an immense amount to do. Just not the kinds of things you want to do.”

Anyhow. . .

To find out how much Palm Beach County is spending on climate change and sea level rise using proceeds from the the ¢1 sales tax increase, the news article by the Post’s Wayne Washington that gave the numbers earlier this year, and the reason why you should “Enjoy life while you can” click on this link to a blog post that explains it all.