Climate change is real, it is already happening with a lot more locked-in. If we as a species take action to greatly reduce our CO2 emissions we can reduce the negative consequences. No-one knows for sure, yet, what the outcome will be if we do not, but they will be serious with a significant possibility of being catastrophic for all of us (or all of our descendants, anyway). For example, up to a billion people flooded out of their homes by rising oceans. Another example, changes to rainfall patterns throwing hundreds of years of agriculture into turmoil.
It is completely irresponsible for us not to treat this as a high political priority and take concerted action. It is DISGRACEFUL for anyone of influence to spread the myth that climate change is not happening or that it is not driven largely by human activities (chiefly CO2 emissions). Or to spread disinformation such as “increased CO2 levels is good for plant life” (plants do need CO2 to photosynthesise but 250ppm seemed to be perfectly sufficient for thousands of years).
We must win this fight.
Thank you for reading.
Dave
David Stakes 