I am sure that the developments in human life on the planet over the last 3 centuries, especially the enormous increase in population, have had drastic impacts on the environment, climate change being only one of those impacts. While people quibble about the details of climate change, those changes and all the others, continue to grow and threaten human life as we have come to expect to live it. Over-fishing, rain-forest destruction, garbage, chemical pollution, are some of the serious issues apart from the possible impacts of global warming. Unless, or until, human beings understand that we are merely one, relatively unimportant, part of a vast system, which has no particular interest ( being anthropomorphic!) in our survival, we will probably continue to dig our own graves. Without a fundamental change in our understanding of our situation, I doubt that we can avoid disasters ahead; I fear for my grandchildren and their children.
Joy Lumsden
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