What if the Climate Crisis were World War III?

Stumbled across this article today on my world wide web travels today. It talks about what would happen if Churchill in England and Roosevelt in the US were still in power and treating the climate crisis like World War III. Granted, I don’t buy that Churchill and Roosevelt would act this way, and really they don’t have so much to do with this article, but some of the paragraphs at the end are good.

This could all be done with the scientific knowledge of today. We would not have to invent a magic hydrogen bullet to get there. And, we would be creating tons of jobs, making vast improvements in air quality and would not sacrifice much in the way of our standard of living.

The alternative, a real climate crisis, would result in massive upheavals, tremendous changes in our quality of life, our security and would undoubtedly lead to many wars as we struggle to cope with a world in a downward spiral. New Orleans would look like a holiday camp compared to the chaos that could ensue.

It will take a massive crisis or a confluence of great leaders to mobilize us. The challenge is that when we look around us today, it is hard to imagine a crisis. There is a disconnect. Our lights work, our cities work, the TV is on. We go to gym, fly to Europe, take holidays on cruise ships. And you’re telling me that the world is coming to an end?

I guess if we were living in Darfur, where the decline of Lake Chad has precipitated genocide in the region, we might be closer to believing the world is coming to an end.