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| Searching for good news , but finding little. |
The search for good
news about our climate is fruitless.
Many endeavours by individuals and companies to articulate
and produce a sustainable this or that is honourable and warrant praise, but it
appears we continue looking only at the symptoms and in reality pay little
attention to the causes of climate change.
The issue, it seems, is implicated in human nature and our
inherent intellectual inability to deal with matters that are in conflict with
the essence of our being.
The life most of us lead and persist with stands in direct
contrast to what is needed if we are to seriously mitigate the circumstances
that are generating the destabilisation of the world’s climate system.
That of course needs to be qualified for the world’s climate
system is what it is and the earth itself has little concern (that suggests the
earth is a sentient thing) about what the atmosphere is or is not doing.
What is always assumed is that we are discussed and atmosphere
that is, and remains, habitable for humans.
Under a new governmental regime, Australia is dismantling
the meagre climate change steps it had taken and at this early stage it appears
we are going to leave the responsibility for addressing this cataclysm to the
rest of the world.
In a story headed: “Two degrees: how we imagine climate change”, The Conversation asks, “How can we imagine was 2C means for the world?”
The story points to massive variations seen in the past and
then explains that what we are seeing now is happening 10 000 times the rate of
those past natural cycles.
No, the news is not good and made even somewhat grimmer through
the stance taken by the present Abbott led Australian Government.
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