Quote:This analogy was too good so I'm stealing it straight from the comment section from the reddit link to the above article:


From 'moduspwns' responding to another commenter's analogy that the current public policy/debate is akin to a college student procrastinating until the night before the due date:


"The real problem is that it's not really like a term paper. An unfinished term paper doesn't get worse the longer you wait. Waiting until you're closer to the due date doesn't increase the time it takes to write the paper or the penalty to your grade of not writing it in time.

Climate change isn't like that. We're not slowly warming the planet, we're slowing increasing the rate at which the planet is warming. Even if we just stopped contributing to climate change completely, it would take quite a while for the warming to stop increasing, much less to start decreasing. We're not increasing the temperature, we're increasing the rate of change in the temperature. We're not moving toward disaster, we're accelerating toward disaster.

It's more like we're holding our foot on the gas pedal heading toward a brick wall that nearly every map says is just ahead.

And we're waiting to see the wall before we take our foot off the accelerator.

And the car doesn't have any brakes.

And a good portion of the passengers are insisting that the maps must be wrong because they can't see the wall yet.

And an even larger portion of the passengers are insisting that we shouldn't let off on the gas pedal because slowing down isn't worth it if someone figures out a way to go through the wall before we reach it."