If a plastics factory dumps toxic sludge into a river, we see, in days, the consequences. If a coal-fired power station in New South Wales dumps carbon emissions into the atmosphere, the impacts diffuse into a stupidly big sheet of roiling fluid film covering our planet, and the consequences manifest among a trillion hyperactive climate variables.
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| Our present politicians will be dead and gone when climate change really begins to bite. |
As you peer further into the future, the impacts of climate change get worse, and consequently, easier to detect on a personal, lived scale. They get so bad that I feel silly talking literally about them:
“In a six-degree-warmer world, the Earth’s ecosystem will boil with so many natural disasters that we will just start calling them “weather”: a constant swarm of out-of-control typhoons and tornadoes and floods and droughts, the planet assaulted regularly with climate events that not so long ago destroyed whole civilisations”
Read the story by Ketan Joshi - “Australia’s politicians will not be alive when climate impacts accelerate.”
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