Warning: this post contains Doom and Gloom.
Friends, over the last few months you may have noticed I’ve not been around. I have mostly been educating myself about climate change. I have noticed that there is a dramatic split in the environmental movement.
On the one hand we have scientists stating that the situation is really bad. We have people, including the General Secretary of the United Nations, talking as if it is the greatest threat since WWII and that we need to mobilise on that kind of scale. Forget the War on Terror, future global instability is going to be caused directly or indirectly by climate change. Bear in mind that the negotiations which are half-heartedly taking place are based on a reduction in the rate of increase of emissions - whereas the best science suggests that a rapid fall is actually needed. If you want to be really scared, read this report (PDF) from Friends of the Earth Australia.
And on the other hand, we have a bunch of people saying that what we need to do to beat climate change is to change a few lightbulbs. Er… hello..?
04-28-2008 |
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