We've always been not only universal despoilers but brilliant adapters; climate change is just the same old story writ larger.
On the other hand, CAP's brilliant energy and climate expert Joseph Romm declared last year that FutureGen was "either doubly pointless or doubly cynical," given that "the climate will have been destroyed irrevocably before FutureGen could have accomplished anything useful in the marketplace".
Nonetheless, Klein's book is a brilliant critique of climate problems, a solid discussion of the principles and policies required to build a sustainable society, an admonition to demolish the old paradigm now sustaining an extractive, exploitative economy, and the brilliant outline of a new paradigm.
So, as ecological overshoot is only possible for a limited time, we better get on NOW with building bold and brilliant solutions to our Climate-Development Mission Possible Challenge.
It's certainly not the case that David Rose has some brilliant insight into the state of climate science that climate scientists don't have.
The curved profiles and steeply angled walls have hints of the mud buildings of northern Africa, only rendered in brilliant white for the Scottish climate – shown off here in dazzling new models, made especially for the exhibition.
Still, when it's reported in The New York Times... Climate deniers are brilliant at setting up simple, memorable and scary financial calculations that brand climate change activists as prioritizing the environment against the economy.
But it has turned out to be a good way of raising money, as well as a brilliant advertisement for Slovakia's business climate.
It was a sartorial gesture that would have been better suited to the more stereotypical English climate than Monday's brilliant sunshine.
Suppose some brilliant people figure out a solution to climate change, and other brilliant people figure out how to put those solutions in place.
