It is just getting worse and worse
Please read some excerpts from the article found online on the New Scientist.com
The world's recent carbon dioxide emissions are growing more rapidly than even the worst-case climate scenario used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say researchers.
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They (the researchers) concluded that the rise in CO2 emissions is not due to a growth in global population, but a reduction in global efficiency.
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The researchers found that no part of the world reduced the amount of carbon used to produce energy between 2000 and 2004, despite widespread publicity in support of greener sources of energy.
Although the article says that one cannot say that Kyoto was a failure (it resulted in emissions trading, carbon offsetting and so on), what is sure is that what came out of it was not enough. More is needed, more must be done. I fear the day when future politicians will say: 'We should have...' and while looking at each other, tell us 'We have only ourselves to blame...'. Inaction is the worst threat to climate change.
What are we waiting for? And I say we because we citizens have to do our part too. We cannot expect government to come up with measures, and then complain about the price and grumble that it is a new tax (just like the e-waste issue). We cannot wait for the effects to be felt before, because then it will be too late (or is it already). We live too good a life (or a lazy one?) to do any sacrifices such as switching off and becoming more energy efficient.
My call is for more to be done. So much money is wasted on useless things (think wars, wildlife trade, drugs). What are the real priorities?
Please wake up! Don't let the worst nightmare man has ever created come true.
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