Climate Progress: '...imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself...'

Climate Progress | ThinkProgress 

Umm, maybe we can change the 'we' below to the GOP and the oil and coal industries.

"“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.” So ends Field Notes from a Catastrophe, the terrific 2006 book by Elizabeth Kolbert, one of the country’s most thoughtful climate journalists."