The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It’s Sending People to Therapy – Vice
Erik Buitenhuis, a senior researcher at the Tyndall Centre for
Climate Change Research, tells me that Bendell’s conclusions may sound
extreme, but he agrees with the report’s overall assessment. “I think
societal collapse is indeed inevitable,” he says, though adds that “the
process is likely to take decades to centuries”.
Climate Change Research, tells me that Bendell’s conclusions may sound
extreme, but he agrees with the report’s overall assessment. “I think
societal collapse is indeed inevitable,” he says, though adds that “the
process is likely to take decades to centuries”.
The
important thing, Buitenhuis says, is to realise that the negative
effects of climate change have already been with us for some time:
“Further gradual deterioration looks much more likely to me than a
disaster within the next ten years that will be big enough that, after
that, everybody will agree the status quo is doomed.”