Pessimism

I was reading Marty Nemko's post where he uses a bunch of probabilities of things related to global warming and then multiplies to probabilities together to create a joint probability that action on global warming would be helpful. This joint probability turns out to be 0.2. I share Marty Nemko's skepticism of central planning,though I'd extend this to private bureaucracies as well as public ones, I think that global warming is a reality and that people who deny this are either practicing bad science or denial based on ideology or religion. The problem is that central planning may the only recourse we have against global warming and as Nemko would say it often works badly. This is sad because I think that burning much fossil fuel, acidifying the oceans, and raising the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere may be the most powerful legacy this generation leaves behind and we have only defective weapons to fight against it.