Is It My Imagination?
Or is the climate changing faster by the day?
Because here's the thing, I believe that the climate is changing, that we are responsible, and that we need to stop burning fossil fuels in as much as it is humanly possible in order to save our one and only home from heating up to the point where it can no longer sustain us.
All of us.
But I have trouble with who it is telling us, loudest and most forcefully, that we need to sign on to accords and agreements that seem only to be in the interests of appearing to do something about a worldwide problem, by buying and selling carbon credits, rather than doing something worldwide to deal with a worldwide problem and actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions - worldwide.
I mean, it's become a little ridiculous, hasn't it? Demanding a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from a relatively small, but developed, population on one side of the world, while the other side of the world, the side with all the people, continues to develop and pollute at a rate hitherto unknown in the history of the planet - development that totally negates any efforts made over on this side of the world to reduce its pollution by polluting more than ever over on the other side of the world?
Oh, and have you heard the latest? The long lasting (supposedly - who knows, though, really) mercury lightbulbs we've all just replaced our incandescent lightbulbs with are made in China. It's true. I read it on Canada's best blog: smalldeadanimalsRus
Anyway, I believe in science and the science of climate change makes a lot of sense to me. I just hope it doesn't turn out to make a lot of cents for the very people saying we have to act now and act fast before the climate changes again and we miss the chance to reduce all our greenhouse gases by buying credits from a big box of carbon, somewhere.
See, it's not the science - it's everything else about climate change that has me shaking my head.
