Peter du Toit on Nostr: “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re ...
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation [reduction of emissions] we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”—Dr. John Holdren, 2007
We have clearly chosen suffering.
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