I’ve Studied Climate Change Up-close for the Past Three Years. Here’s How We Can Save the Planet, and Our Global Economy

For the past three years, I’ve endeavoured to learn just how drastically global warming is changing our planet and our lives.

The Illuissat Icefjord in Greenland. 35 billion tonnes
of iceberg calve off and pass out of the fjord every year.

And what I’ve learned is staggering. The threat of global warming on our global well-being looms larger and more immediately than most of us know or care to consider. And this apathy is perhaps the greatest obstacle when it comes to addressing global warming, the most pressing crisis in the history of human civilization.

For the vast majority of us, the effects of global warming are minimal. We might have a rainier spring or an extended summer, but these are minor inconveniences, and they belie the enormity of the issue.

So I decided to visit sites around the world where the effects of our global warming are most pronounced and interview subject-area experts in each location. In order to fully understand global warming and its impact on our environment and economy, I had to experience it first-hand.

Read the story from Medium by Sasja Beslik -  “I’ve Studied Climate Change Up-close for the Past Three Years. Here’s How We Can Save the Planet, and Our Global Economy.”

Cowandilla Primary School students learn about climate change

Learning about climate change.

At Cowandilla Primary School in Adelaide, students learn about climate change from an early age. 

Inspired by what they learn in the classroom, the school’s Climate Change Leaders are cutting their carbon footprints everywhere from the energy they use to the food they eat, challenging their parents to take action too.

Watch this YouTube video - Inconvenient Youth (Australia).

Donald Trump's Paris climate pull-out puts him on a collision course with market forces

He may be the leader of the free world, but Donald Trump is about to learn the hard way that he cannot control the free market.

President Donald Trump may have unwittingly
 ceded global economic leadership to China.

The US President's declaration that America would withdraw from the Paris Accord on climate change largely was met with derision by big business, even fossil fuel giants Exxon Mobil and Conoco Phillips.

The reason? The business world has moved on. The argument about climate change has passed and most now accept the inevitability of a carbon price.

Read the ABC News story - “Donald Trump's Paris climate pull-out puts him on a collision course with market forces.”