Posted on October 13, 2009.
Tagged with The Guardian, George Monbiot, Climate Change, UK policy, International Politix, .

The really scary thing about all Governments failure to act now is that down the line, Governments will have to act in increasingly drastic ways. CC sceptics, deniers, call them what you like, may not accept the effect of Carbon Emissions, but the reasons for acting environmentally responsibly are not limited to the misnomer “carbon”. Water, as a resource is getting scarcer. Oil is appraoching, or past, peak production. Desertification caused by deforestatioin is a huge issue. Die -off of pollinating species is occuring. Over-fishing has pushed fish stocks to crisis point. Even IF these problems are not directly caused by humans, we live in a world where they are a reality. The scale of that reality is debatable in some cases, but failure to act on most of these issues affects us all - I have never encoutered an argument, even by a sceptic, that does not accept that the planets ecosystem is completely interrelated. George Monbiot comments in the governments current predicament.

The really scary thing about all Governments failure to act now is that down the line, Governments will have to act in increasingly drastic ways. CC sceptics, deniers, call them what you like, may not accept the effect of Carbon Emissions, but the reasons for acting environmentally responsibly are not limited to the misnomer “carbon”. Water, as a resource is getting scarcer. Oil is appraoching, or past, peak production. Desertification caused by deforestatioin is a huge issue. Die -off of pollinating species is occuring. Over-fishing has pushed fish stocks to crisis point.

Even IF these problems are not directly caused by humans, we live in a world where they are a reality. The scale of that reality is debatable in some cases, but failure to act on most of these issues affects us all - I have never encoutered an argument, even by a sceptic, that does not accept that the planets ecosystem is completely interrelated.

George Monbiot comments in the governments current predicament.