Why Climate Change May Still Be Compatible with a Brighter
Future We greens are often accused of being anti-progress, and
it's certainly fair to say that disasterbation can be a problem
in the environmental movement. But while peak oil, climate
change, mass extinction and a looming food crisis may keep some
of us up at night, it's important to remember that there are
many reasons to be cheerful. In fact, says Adam Stein of
Terrapass, the last decade was humanity's best yet, and there is
reason to believe and/or hope that the future also has some good
things in store.Climate Change and Future Prosperity May Not Be
Incompatible In a welcome return as a guest poster for
Terrapass, Stein offers a provocative take on humanity's future
entitled "The End is Nigh?" There is, he says good reason to
believe that climate change will be a very real, very dangerous
threat to future generations. But there is also good reason to
believe that those future generations will be better off than we
are. Poverty and disease are in