The Observer editorial on climate change
Jul 25 2021 from The Guardian
An excerpt to give you the picture, but everyone should read this.
“Reminders that our planet is wilting under the impact of human-driven climate change have been hard to avoid this month. Catastrophic floods have killed 160 in Germany while more than 50 died after massive inundations swept through the central Chinese province of Henan when a year’s worth of rain fell in three days last week. At the same time, forest fires have ripped through one of the world’s coldest places, Siberia, after unusually hot, dry weather gripped the region. Canada and the US have also been afflicted by conflagrations that have destroyed communities and vast areas of woodland. One blaze in the US state of Oregon has spread over an area 25 times the size of Manhattan and has raged out of control for weeks. Global warming, triggered by rising levels of greenhouse gases, has been implicated in every case.“
The basic problem is that our leaders (politicians and business etc.) have so far failed to fix this. The United Nations’s Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow will show if these leaders have the backbone to do what needs to be done, or will it show that they are LINOs, (and that is of course Leaders In Name Only).
I hope they can come up with something that will fix this, but I am not sure I would bet on it.
