Climate Change
The vast majority of scientists believe that human activities have played a significant part in the changing of the earth’s temperature.
The solutions to combat climate change will take the cooperation of business, industry and government as well as our own willingness as individuals to make sacrifices towards sustainability.
It is time for each person to make a commitment to change, as far as they are able, toward reducing their environmental footprint.
Convenient Solutions
Al Gore’s eye-opening ‘Inconvenient Truth’ helped clarify and focus the issue of climate change. He and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their achievements in addressing the issue of climate change to a global audience.
Whilst we are riding a wave a public acknowledgment, there is still very little being done in the lives of everyday people to combat the effects of climate change. The danger for us now is for us to believe that because this issue is now a daily news story, something is being done.
“A technological society has two choices: first it can wait until catastrophic failures expose systemic deficiencies, distortion and self-deceptions. Secondly, a culture can provide social checks and balances to correct for systemic distortion prior to catastrophic failures”.
We must find the most ‘convenient solutions’ to the challenges ahead. We must work as individuals and partners in business, technology and policy to ensure the future security of our planet.
The time for inaction is over. Finding solutions and incorporating them into our daily lives is a collective responsibility that we all must share and there are many ways in which we can all contribute and play a part in reversing the effects of climate change for the sake of our children, and our children’s children.
“To start with let me say that we, the human race, have substantially altered the Earth’s atmosphere. In 2005 the concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded the natural range that has existed over 650.000 years.
11 of the warmest years since instrumental records have been kept occurred during the last 12 years and therefore climate change is accelerating. In the 20th century the increase in average temperature
was 0.74 degrees centigrade; sea level increased by 17 cm and a large part of the Northern Hemisphere snow cover vanished.
Particularly worrisome is the reduction in the mass balance of the glaciers and this has serious implications for the availability of water; something like 500 million people in South Asia and 250 million people in China are likely to be affected as a result.”
2041 endorses the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for all our sources on current thinking and global consensus.
