Climate war

      Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum has been fulminating on the inevitable climate disaster we are making for ourselves and possible solutions to this existential threat to our species and our planet.
      He has said for many years that even the casual climate warrior and I count myself as one, will not be willing to make the sacrifices that would be required to stem our carbon dump into the atmosphere.   Not only are the population of advanced countries unwilling.  The developing world is clamoring for the same comforts we take for granted.  For them to enjoy our standard of living would hasten our demise.   Unless... Drum makes the case for massive R&D into green technologies.
      With a proposal of $700 billion per year, he would literally throw massive amounts of money at every promising project from solar to wind to carbon sequestration and fusion power.  I think he is putting these ideas out there in hopes of getting enough people to press their representatives in Congress to start pushing the R&D buttons.
      As he says, it may be too little, too late, but we must do something massive in the next few years or pray that some program being developed as I write this will make non fossil fuel power so cheap we can electrify our lives and keep the climate livable for our descendants.