Those who deny
climate change point, without fail, to the past to substantiate their arguments.
Doing that, they argue, as they point to the past: “This is
not new, it’s happened before”.
Yes, it is unquestionably easy to do that and find the
equivalent of what is happening now, but that overlooks two important and
critical matters.
Years, often decades stood between events of the past and
today those same, or similar disruptive happenings are an annual occurrence.
And worsening that, those places disrupted by those climatic
events are more closely settled and so have populations vastly exceeding those
of the past.
A modern and current example of that is unfolding at San
Paulo in Brazil.
The country’s largest city is nearly out of water and, of
course, those who deny climate change, can quickly point to history and say “Oh
that happened 80 years ago, so that is nothing new.”
Those justifications overlook the simple and critical fact
that eight decades ago, San Paulo was home to just 200 000 people, while today
some 20 million people live in the city.
A story on Real Clear
Science, headed: “Brazil's Largest City Almost Out of Water”, explains what
is unfolding in the country’s capital city.
No comments:
Post a Comment