But WE need to act and WE need to act now!

Bushfires below Stacks Bluff, Tasmania, Australia: Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash

Reacting to Climate Change

My reaction to Climate Change (and all the other challenges that confront our planet) is a daily roller-coaster of fury at our governments’ inept responses to the issues.  I feel outrage at the multinational organisations that seem to care only about profit. I am depressed at the loss of biodiversity that helps to fulfil humanity’s needs and provides much needed beauty and wonder in our lives. I want to scream with dismay at the greed of rich countries that seem to care little for those that have contributed less to Climate Change yet lack the ability to adapt to the problems they face because of it.  It also leaves me with a sense that as an individual there is absolutely nothing I can do against these enormous forces.

HOWEVER, I know that there are many others out there that feel like I do and they need my support. I have a deep-seated belief that we need to work together as citizens of the world. We have to make clear what we want. Only then can we create better and more fulfilling lives for ourselves in the future.

There are also many others who care deeply and who are committed to making the transformations required to create that better future. Some of these changes are already making a difference to our lives and others are well on the way.  See this article about new ways being developed to tackle the climate crisis.

So, if we move fast now, we can still, just, change how we live to avoid the worst effects of a warming planet.  However, we all have to act differently and we have to work together to create a word that works for everybody. We CAN all make a difference and we CAN create a better and happier world.

Water is Life

“Wonderful Stuff This Water!!” Climate Change is primarily a water crisis. We feel its impacts through worsening floods, rising sea levels, shrinking ice fields, wildfires and droughts. For more information, have a look at this article. “The earth, the air, the land,...

Someone else will fix it!

How often have you thought deep in your heart “someone else will fix it”? Maybe there is rubbish lying in the street, but you are in a hurry. Or perhaps you see a poor person begging and you think “probably they will spend it on drugs, somebody else can waste their...

Taking Biodiversity Loss Seriously

Could African Elephants Really Disappear From the Wild? “The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchild may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?” David Attenborough said this, commenting on the current rapid rate of global...

Far From Home

UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) says that at the end of 2023 the number of forcibly displaced people in the world amounted to 1 in every 69 of the global population. Over 42 million of them were children! I find that quite staggering. Why should we worry...

Wake Up!

Are we just going to give in? – let our children’s futures go to hell? – do nothing to save our wonderful wildlife? – let dictators take over our world for the sake of their private gain? – abandon minorities? – create misery for billions of people? – let our major...

Changing Us – to Change the Future

Humanity has had endless opportunities to change for the better, and we have chosen not to. If we want our children to thrive in the years to come it is obvious that we need to find a way to transform our thinking. It is clear now that we have the technology to tackle...

Let’s Focus on What We Can Do!

It is not always easy. Life is tough at the moment. But I don’t want to concentrate on the problems. I want to focus on what we can do about them. Not the airy fairy “we can probably do this in the future kind of promise”, but what each of us can do right now. All of...

Nature’s Way

Part 2 of a two-part series on how to tackle Climate Change Mangrove Swamps Make Wonderful Carbon Sinks Restoring Nature can help us tackle Climate Change Humanity has created utter chaos in this beautiful world of ours. Nature can help us repair that damage and...

The Geoengineering Way

Part 1 of a two-part series on how to tackle Climate Change The Geoengineering Way Nature’s Way Should we use geoengineering to save our environment? What is geoengineering anyway? This detailed article by ciel.org explains that geoengineering is large or...

One of Our Better Ideas?

Renewable Energy An Area of Hope Technology can sound a bit dull. But this technology isn’t! and I love to write about success stories. The triumph of renewable energy is one of those, an area where mankind can pat itself on the back and cheer. Not only that, but it...

Useful links and background reading

Background Reading

Hope in Hell by Jonathon Porritt

This Changes Everything, Capitalism versus the Climate by Naomi Klein

The Future we Choose by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

Less is More, How Degrowth will Save the World by Jason Hickel

Useful Links

NASA Climate Change

The Met Office UK Causes of Climate Change

Worldwide Fund for Nature Effects of Climate Change

The BBC Ten Simple Ways to Act on Climate Change

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