CT302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Marshall Plan, 2Degrees, Planetary System
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Ways we try to deny or overlook climate change occurrences 3. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. All we have to do is not react like this is a full-blown crisis. She saw that climate change both as a terrible threat to her people- but also an opportunity 5. They were in a position to call themselves climate creditors, owed money and technology support from the large emitters to defray the hefty costs of coping with more climate-related disasters. A marshall plan for the earth would be very costly. Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders 6. What gets declared as a crisis is an expression of power and priorities as much as hard facts. The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty 7.
