Reading the new IPCC report and reports of the report. We really are in a fix. I noted this , which summarises how we hae the priorities all wrong. It will sound very familiar if you have followed my comments over the years. Writing for Australias the Conversation, professors Colin Butler and Helen Louise Berry, and Emeritus professor Anthony McMichael say the focus has been largely on spurious debate about the basic science and on the risks to property, iconic species and ecosystems, jobs, the GDP and the economics of taking action versus taking our chances. Missing from the discussion is the threat climate change poses to Earth’s life-support system – from declines in regional food yields, freshwater shortage, damage to settlements from extreme weather events and loss of habitable, especially coastal, land. The list goes on: changes in infectious disease patterns and the mental health consequences of trauma, loss, displacement and resource conflict.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:25:30 +0000
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