The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.
If we want to understand where the environment is
heading, writes John Feffer, then we only need look to the example of
North Korea - the world's climate change canary.
To continue
business as usual while debating the predictions of complex models in a
world made even more uncertain by the questions we ask is to fail to
pull the ripcord
Civilization is what grows up in the margins of leisure and security
provided by a workable relationship with the natural world. That margin
won't exist, at least not for long, this side of 350
The stakes are too high to waste time evading the issue. Doing so is
intellectually dishonest and a setup for global tragedy. It's time
environmentalists ended the silence on population
Small changes to the way we live our lives are not enough to tackle
the environmental challenges facing the planet. The only
option is to cut the unsustainable consumption of the Earth's finite
resources
We have it in our power to
restructure the world energy economy and avoid disastrous climate
change. All we need is the leadership, the vision, and the will
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil
fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the
public, according to NASA's top climate scientist.