Hi everyone,
Here is an article about this. Climate change has finally 'hit home' for many in the developed world...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/31/opinions/climate-crisis-is-upon-us-opinion-intl/index.html*********
This summer's sizzling temperatures, savage droughts, raging wildfires, floods and acute water shortages -- from Japan to the Arctic Circle, California to Greece -- are surely evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that the climate crisis is upon us now.
This is the new normal -- until it gets worse.
We, the entire global community, the residents of this planet, must finally grasp the urgency at hand and undertake dramatic, meaningful measures -- initiatives beyond the modest goals of 2015 Paris climate accord -- to stave off nothing less than the destruction of civilization as we know it.
Yet the headlines still read "When The Weather Is Extreme, Is Climate Change To Blame?"
We've got to move past the false, stubborn debate about whether global warming is happening or not. Obviously it is, plentiful research has underscored this for years, and with the natural disasters everywhere we're feeling it now. Those who still don't get it may have stuck their heads in the sand -- or perhaps they're lying to themselves.
As individuals, of course we can curb our consumption and make our lifestyles as sustainable as possible. But as citizens we have to mobilize too and force our elected leaders (and unelected leaders in China and elsewhere) to tackle the industrial giants whose fortunes are tied up in petrochemical generation.
Until this summer, many in the developed world probably assumed that global warming would only affect the undeveloped and the far-away. But global warming has hit home for all of us in 2018.
If empathy for others or future generations can't inspire concern, then let pure self-interest dictate action.
Whatever the motive, the time for half measures is past.
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Do you think that, at this stage, any changes we make in our life styles or even Govt. policy changes are going to make any difference? I don't think so.
I also think that the actual changes are going to be sudden and unpredictable. Up to one point they might appear predictable but after that there could be a sudden collapse. Like falling off a cliff. In fact, there could be a series of sudden collapses.
Cheers.
Sriram
