Face Up to Climate Karma
What's happening to our climate and what can we do?
Why is there yet another website proclaiming the dangers of global warming?
For the last 30 years we have know our activities were having a detrimental effect on the Earth's environment. For 30 years we did nothing, and only now in the face of changing weather pattens and murmurings of catastrophic changes to the thermodynamics of our atmosphere, are more people beginning to realize we should do something.
For many people, I would say most, global warming doesn't feature much in their way of thinking. It's there with all the other things, but not really their responsibility, just something that the scientists and governments will sort out eventually.
That's why there's another global warming site, because there can't be enough emphasis on the fact that every single person has contributed to this problem, and every single person can do something to help fix it. We are very literally all in the same boat.
Ok, so how bad is it really?
Well, pretty bad. The general consensus of nearly all environmental scientists is that the accumulation of greenhouse gasses will have serious impacts on the planet and its inhabitants. How bad is bad? The list is extensive but in short -
- More extreme weather - heat waves, droughts, wild fires, floods and hurricanes.
- Rising sea levels - loss of infrastructure, forcing mass migrations, affecting supply chains and water supplies.
- Crop failures - with all that famine and disease bring.
- Loss of a significant percentage of animal and plant species - potentialy over 1 million species.
- Loss of polar ice caps and permafrost - exposes more heat absorbing dark water, loss of heat reflection, release of greenhouse gasses.
- Human civilization is fragile, and won't cope well with quickly changing extreme meteorological systems. Money systems rest on confidence, and wars start more easily when countries are under strain.
- This is over decades, not hundreds or thousands of years.
- It's likely there's a tipping point - positive carbon feedback loops, such as melting ice caps, dyeing forests etc could runaway, becoming impossible to control and releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, compounding the situation.
Below are a selection of links to various organizations who can help you become more active in the fight to preserve our planet. I am not affiliated with them and receive no payment if you use them. They are there because I use them myself and find them trustworthy.
