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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Climate change: I don't get it

I don't get it. There is a massive ice island, four times the size of Manhattan (in other words, really really big) has broken off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. Extreme drought in Russia, massive monsoon floods in Pakistan. To me, clear signs that the climate is changing, the planet warming. And meanwhile, climate change talks in Bonn moved the global discussion backwards from the extremely weak Copenhagen talks. Argh.

I don't get it.

The tragedy is that there are so many things we can do, at every level, to radically change the situation. And yet the world sits, and doesn't change its behaviour, and poor people and nations are going to suffer and wealthy nations and corporations are going to grasp and struggle over the few remaining drops of oil buried deep within the earth.

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