Denying human-induced climate change is like denying a solar eclipse by arguing that it is also dark at night. Erik Puura explains why climate change is a fact and how humanity has already successfully tackled an environmental crisis once before.
According to legend, the French King Louis XV once said “Après moi, le déluge” to his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, which could be roughly translated as “After me, the flood.” As we know, Louis XV and his court lived a rather luxurious, even extravagant life, which ended just fifteen years after the king’s death with an event he would indeed have compared to a flood–the French Revolution.
This phrase comes to mind when I observe how some individuals and interest groups resist global changes–changes that no longer threaten the court of a single nation but the very existence of humanity itself.