President Obama is seeking an international climate accord that would not require
cooperation from either the Senate or the House of Representatives. I
don’t love the idea of completely going around our political system on
this. But, with the survival of humanity and most of the multicellular
life in the biosphere and in fact, the health of the biosphere as a
whole on the line, it may be necessary.
We all know that if he tries to get this through even the senate, he’ll
never get the required 67% for a treaty. After all, the repugnicans have
proven that they would rather kill off humanity and cause another
Permian/Triassic level extinction (where 95% of all multicellular
species go extinct) than actually allow Obama to accomplish so much as
brushing his teeth.
So,
for now, with the means being not too bad and the ends being necessary
for survival, I’m going to go with the ends justify the means on this
limited case, even though I strongly disagree with the philosophy for
most issues.
