Hurtling towards climatic Armageddon - Big industries and governments are not acting fast enough to prevent climate change, with disastrous consequences
, after whom the city of Seattle was named, who said: “We did not inherit this planet from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
Inaction will haunt the entire planet for generations to come. It is evident that many will choose to ignore the report, supported by right-wing politicians, the coal industry, unenlightened industrialists and self-appointed experts, many of whom speak not from the high ground of sound technical knowledge and wisdom, but from the pit of scientific illiteracy. , former chief executive of the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office, remarked on climate change: “This force knows no boundaries.
We are graphically witnessing the impact of global warming all around us. The past 100 years has seen an unprecedented retreat of glaciers all over the world; in the Alps, about half of the total glacier mass was lost between 1850 and 1990. In the US the 150 glaciers that gave the name to Glacier National Park have been reduced to 48, while the ice caps of Patagonia are melting at an alarming rate, creating a deluge of freezing water.
When trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and sequester carbon, they slowly release the oxygen that all animals breathe. When they are chopped down for wood and burned to clear land, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Having too much carbon in the atmosphere has been proved by many scientists and researchers to cause global warming.
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