'The latest
IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet:
we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no
documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate
catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average
global temperature.'
Read Scientific American's post here.
Then please give a thought to some of the other realities. In my opinion, there is
no way that the world will ever unite into one cohesive political
force that could then address a multi-trillion dollar systemic problem. To
actually have any effect over the next 100 years on global processes that
are in place; every country would have to pretty much sacrifice their
future development. That would include the halting of the massive
deforestation that happens in many 2nd and third world
nations all over the planet. That would include the complete carbon footprint dismantling of
America, Russian, Indian and Chinese technologies and basically a fast
return to the 1700's for all. That's not going to happen. So,
rather than cry in our milk, we need true leadership that can address such
issues as rising CO2 and sea levels, along with the very real potential of the
return of a Little Ice Age.
The sad truth is that very few
individuals, not matter where they happen to live, are willing to give up very
much. They also have a hard time getting worked up over something
that might happen to their children's children. And, if everyone
really faced the truth, they'd know that key survival issues like potable water availability
will very likely drive mass migrations of billions in the not very distant
future. [Please see the News Week titled 'The
World Will Soon be at War Over Water'!]
Then again, that's all assuming that we don't all blow
ourselves up in a nuclear holocaust!
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