Led by China, CO2 gases rose in 2008 - Climate Change- msnbc.com
Spiralling feedback effects strengthening climate change are not something we will grow out of. In fact, if the world's economy is not on a substantially different footing by the time a general recovery takes hold, then I dare say life as we know it, in the long run, is doomed. Sorry to go all "2012" on ya....
Given unmodified capitalism's current strength and long lead, reversing course in time to save ourselves seems highly dubious. It is not likely, and certainly not desirable, that humanity should live through a second big economic collapse prior to the tipping point after which human efforts toward greenhouse gas emissions reduction lose effectiveness and nature wails on. Pity it seems we cannot become immediately and globally more radical in reimagining future energy, transport and commerce without their legacy wastes. Future generations will naught but thank us if, somehow, we do.
