These reports seem to be coming so thick and fast at the moment it is becoming quite easy to, well, simply avoid reading them, but this, from the New Scientist, is short and quite illuminating.
The essence of the piece? Even if we stopped all fossil fuel burning right now, the planet could take over a thousand years to recover from the excess CO2 in the atmosphere.
Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
1 comment:
I believe in freedom of speech. But I also don't like bullies on blogs, even verbal ones, as they can drive away those with something valid to say... or offer.
Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
I'm not too keen on 'Anon' as a handle (and the content usually explains why), so if that's what you opt for it may not make it. Sorry.
One reason, of many, why I tend to steer clear of such macro climate change pieces these days. It's hard to get motivated by 'doom and gloom'.
ReplyDeleteBetween it, and the comments, what do I, as an average Joe Schmoe, come away with?
Sadly the core issues seem all lost in the extremes of the debate.
I was going to say it needs government to kick in if it is this serious, but they obviously are not to the level the stated situation requires, which begs the question 'why not?'.
So, sadly, my faith and trust in authority is none to high at present.
It's one battle I don't feel qualified to engage with, and hence tend to see more merit in focussing on reducing waste, which will with luck be a small part of an overall jigsaw that will end up helping mitigate and/or 'solve' what we might be facing.