grandchildren is: "Sorry about us panicking and going all out going green. It turns out that the climate changes weren't as drastic as predicted, and that other nations who weren't as panicked as us didn't waste their effort on energy savings and carbon neutrality. They are now the rich nations that own all the resources, because they concentrated on building infrastructure, while we are the poor nation that has inefficient, unworkable infrastructure instead. Sorry about us being a developing nation now".
That would be the other extreme. Personally I think the best response is something in between. And there are so many choices, and so many opportunities, that we can practically pick a slightly different course for everyone. Panicking and insisting that "EVERYBODY MUST DO THIS OR WE'LL ALL DIE" is the one choice that is guaranteed to be wrong. |
