The emphasis for our proposed public event next year should
not be about convincing people that climate change is a reality rather, how to
live in what will be quite a different world.
The reality is moving faster than people, and their
governments, can make decisions.
A report from the ABC headed: “UN warns permafrost is melting”, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane that has been
trapped in the subsoil for thousands of years.
The volatile gases to be released before the end of this
century have the potential to drive global temperatures up to levels never seen
before.
Our range of speakers should be able to give an outline of
what is happening, then a précis of how that will impact on human life on
earth, what we can do to mitigate the changes we are causing to our atmosphere
and how, both as individuals and communities, we can learn to live with the
unfolding differences.
The five-strong working group (it’s that at the moment, but
may increase) expects to meet within a week or so (certainly early in December)
to consider and formulate ideas for the event.
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