re: Case Study
I started reading that USAF exercise in futurology that Zhavric posted to in Flame: Alternate Futures for 2025. I'll have more to say about it in that thread...
The so-called <a href=http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/monographs/A-F/a-f-3.htm">"Gulliver's Travails" scenario bears the closest resemblance to our present state... it did, at least, until I got to this:
The United States has led efforts to coordinate actions to mitigate global warming and environmental degradation. Efforts to mitigate environmental damage are an issue the advanced states attempt to address in new states and inside their own borders. A general concern regarding the ecosphere allows the environment in Gulliver's Travails to be characterized as "green."
Dream on...
When troops are called out to deal with refugees from flooded coastlines and interior dustbowls, maybe the Deep Denial crowd will wish they'd made contingency plans, instead of [a] insisting "it's not real," or [b] sidestepping, by insisting the argument is about "who's to blame?" instead of "what do we do if it is real?".