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.
A wide gap has developed between the conclusions from the scientific
community on global warming, and what is known by policymakers and the
public, says Dr James Hansen. If politicians remain at loggerheads, then citizens must lead.
James Hansen is right about lobbyists sponsoring the junk science of
climate change denial, writes George Monbiot. But prosecuting energy executives is not the
answer.
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