Should we keep fighting?

In a blog entry by Dave Pollard he reviews the book Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton.

The basic message is that it is too late to stop traumatic climate change.  The predicted changes to the planet include (from CHAP 7):

• the uncontrollable burning of most of the world’s remaining tropical, subtropical and temperate forests due to latent heat
• the prevalence of desertification, disappearance of glacial melt, massive water shortages and endemic high rates of heat-related deaths in the world’s temperate zones (including the Western US and Canada; worst in Southern Europe, the Middle East, much Southeast Asia and most of Mexico and Central America)
• an ice-free world, with a commensurate rise, sooner or later, of 50-70m in sea levels
• unprecedented and chronic floods, storms and monsoons
• the death of almost all ocean life
• large-scale collapse of human infrastructure not designed for such extreme and frequent weather events
• massive numbers of climate change refugees, migrating (mostly north) thousands of miles in search of lands that are still habitable and arable

I'm not sure if things will go so far, so fast but it is a wake up call.

In the Guardian Sustainable Business blog there is an entry discussing Vivienne Westwood's proposal to form laws against ecocide in light of the massive damage humans are perpetrating on the environment.