Comments on: Earth 2100: Our Inevitable Future? or How to Avoid Global Warming’s Impacts through Action http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2009/06/02/earth-2100-our-inevitable-future-or-how-we-can-avoid-global-warmings-impacts-through-action/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer Rennicks http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2009/06/02/earth-2100-our-inevitable-future-or-how-we-can-avoid-global-warmings-impacts-through-action/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Jennifer Rennicks Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:35:38 +0000 http://blog.cleanenergy.org/?p=1289#comment-60 I would suggest the ending was 'unwritten' as it were -- our present and future choices can help write a happy ending. While the narrative *was* kind of melodramatic at times, I particularly liked the positive messages of clean energy = well-paying green jobs shared by Van Jones, founder of Green for All and currently the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. For those of you who missed the special, you can watch individual segments under 'Watch Video" on this page: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100/story?id=7678011&page=1 I would suggest the ending was ‘unwritten’ as it were — our present and future choices can help write a happy ending. While the narrative *was* kind of melodramatic at times, I particularly liked the positive messages of clean energy = well-paying green jobs shared by Van Jones, founder of Green for All and currently the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. For those of you who missed the special, you can watch individual segments under ‘Watch Video” on this page: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100/story?id=7678011&page=1

]]> By: Meegan http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2009/06/02/earth-2100-our-inevitable-future-or-how-we-can-avoid-global-warmings-impacts-through-action/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Meegan Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:57:12 +0000 http://blog.cleanenergy.org/?p=1289#comment-59 I only caught part of the Earth 2100 special - I was pretty intrigued by it. Even though the narrative was kind of melodramatic, it was an important exercise to go through. The effects of global warming can be intangible and hard to conceptualize, especially for those of us who aren't scientists. And it was encouraging to imagine citizens working together to try out solutions to things like sea level rise and alternative transportation methods. I liked the mega-car transport system train thing?! So did it have a happy ending? I only caught part of the Earth 2100 special – I was pretty intrigued by it. Even though the narrative was kind of melodramatic, it was an important exercise to go through. The effects of global warming can be intangible and hard to conceptualize, especially for those of us who aren’t scientists. And it was encouraging to imagine citizens working together to try out solutions to things like sea level rise and alternative transportation methods. I liked the mega-car transport system train thing?!

So did it have a happy ending?

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