If, that is, we want a good
chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather
of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop
failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.