Climate change! The topic is seemingly everywhere. Ross Gittins, writing in this morning's SMH starts his article on the subject this way:
"Climate change is getting to be like that old joke about the weather: everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything. Except that last week the state governments did propose to do something - which, they assured us, would neither cost us much nor do much to slow the economy's growth.
There wouldn't be many people left who still doubt the reality of global warming. According to a report by the CSIRO, Australian agriculture is likely to be affected by reduced rainfall, a greater likelihood of extreme weather events (droughts, floods, cyclones and storms), reduction in the quality of pasture and an increase in the populations of pests such as fruit flies, apple moths and ticks.
The CSIRO also predicts bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, possibly to the point of destruction, reduction of snow cover in the Australian Alps and loss of habitat for many species in northern and south-eastern Australia."
This is not your typical dry article on a problem - which won't go away. Everyone needs to address the critical issue. Read Gittin's take on where things are at here - and read it for yourself, your children and grandchildren and the planet as a whole. If you don't heed that suggestion perhaps Gittin's concluding paragraph might:
"I fear that when the history of our times is written, John Howard will be judged to have worried far too much about terrorism and far too little about global warming."
"Climate change is getting to be like that old joke about the weather: everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything. Except that last week the state governments did propose to do something - which, they assured us, would neither cost us much nor do much to slow the economy's growth.
There wouldn't be many people left who still doubt the reality of global warming. According to a report by the CSIRO, Australian agriculture is likely to be affected by reduced rainfall, a greater likelihood of extreme weather events (droughts, floods, cyclones and storms), reduction in the quality of pasture and an increase in the populations of pests such as fruit flies, apple moths and ticks.
The CSIRO also predicts bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, possibly to the point of destruction, reduction of snow cover in the Australian Alps and loss of habitat for many species in northern and south-eastern Australia."
This is not your typical dry article on a problem - which won't go away. Everyone needs to address the critical issue. Read Gittin's take on where things are at here - and read it for yourself, your children and grandchildren and the planet as a whole. If you don't heed that suggestion perhaps Gittin's concluding paragraph might:
"I fear that when the history of our times is written, John Howard will be judged to have worried far too much about terrorism and far too little about global warming."
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