Let's call a disaster a disaster - then we can roll up our sleeves and start facing it
A doctor doesn't begin to help cure a patient until he or she identifies the specific illness. There is little hope we can deal with the huge threat to life and health, prosperity and human rights, posed by our rapidly intensifying climatic disturbances - worldwide - if we keep talking politely of "climate change". It is quite clear now that the correct over-all term is "climate disaster". The foremost factor in the disaster is climatic events are intensifying, occurring in multiple ways (many of these unforeseen) and moving too fast for economies and people to easily adjust to. This will, at minimum, significantly divert spending and/or impoverish areas and individuals, depress economies - and at maximum will lead to mass starvation, societal breakdowns and conflicts, and disease spread on levels beyond anything in previous human history. On a local scale ; how many major weather bombs need to hit South Westland before land...
++Clemens+Pasch+(sculpture).jpg)
Comments
Post a Comment