Jeremiad #2: Just about any lapse in law, any delay in justice, any error in judgment can later be remedied. But here we are up against something very nearly past fixing. Feedback loops that portend runaway climate change will not be reined in on a human timescale. Climate disequilibrium isn’t about rocking the boat, it’s about capsizing. And we are already about 10 years late to respond. This is about agriculture failing where it once thrived; about disease and famine outbreaking pervasively; about angry politicians unable to represent even angrier constitutients in a physical world that stops cooperating with expectations. It’s about the threat of a great levelling, about the pruning away of society’s richness, about the privatization of dwindling resources, even about private armies and warlordism turning commonplace as societies lose the means to protect and so sacrifice the values of equity, cohesion and liberty. Please tell reps to support Waxman-Markey now. The congressmen are begging for public support for this. It comes up for a vote within 2 weeks. All about it: http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-03-waxman-markey-bill-breakdown/