We have an energy problem. James Schlesinger, Energy Secretary under President Jimmy Carter, said at the recent National Academies’ Summit on America’s Energy Future, “to meet projected oil demand in the next couple of decades, we would need to develop the equivalent of nine Saudi Arabias.”
But, we also have a people problem. He went on comparing people to frogs who are perfectly happy to sit in a pot of water as it is brought to a boil - so long as this process proceeds slowly,
We are watching the water being heated very slowly. The reality is that the public has to be hit on the head with a two-by-four.
As the world warms up, nature might adopt a ’shock and awe’ tactic.