Is it too late to combat Climate Change?
Climate change expert Professor John Holdren in the USA has stated that countries such as the USA and other big polluting nations are not doing enough to combat the effects of climate change. As he sees it, climate change is accelerating at a rate much faster than previously thought. We might not have 20 or 30 years to implement new technology which could potentially stave off global warming.Professor Holdren said that it would cost approximately a several trillion billion dollars to rebuild all the power stations in the entire world and refit them with the latest energy saving technology. This enormous task would take the next 20 to 30 years, which means that we have to start right now to implement this necessary change. But even this strategy might not save the planet from the terrible consequences of climate change. Professor Holdren was interviewed this morning before the 9am news on BBC Radio 4.
John Holdren, Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government said he believes that global warming – which he prefers to term "global climate disruption" – will come to be known as an even more difficult problem than people today expect.
"I believe that global climate disruption will come to be understood over the next few decades as the most dangerous and most intractable environmental problem faced by civilization," Holdren said. "Up until now, it has been undersold more than oversold. Most people, even most scientists, do not understand the degree of dependence of human well-being on environmental conditions and processes that depend, in turn, on the climate."
These opinions expressed by leading environmental scientists should make us all more aware of re-cycling & re-using all sorts of man-made products.
Eco-friendly products should be compulsory for all consumers. Afterall it is in everyone's interest to help make the global environment exist for future generations.
posted by Thomas @ 12:07 pm
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