Well we have had a lovely term of sustainability and at the end of it all we have to pose the question that how many of us in the big wide world care about climate change? Well the answer would seem to be that we simply don’t care about the situation as the link that I have provided shows that many of the British public don’t care about climate change and this seems to be a growing trend which is very unfortunate. This is very troublesome as the issues of climate change will not go away on their own so they public needs to be confronted on these issues but it will most likely be just ignored again and again. I personally think that climate change is the most important issue in our lives and it ranks above war, famine and hate as it is a force that could destroy our way of live while people who dismiss it only make it worse. We are blighted by governments in the world who simply don’t care about climate change. These countries that include America and the rapidly developing nations of India and China (will populations of 300 million 1.1 and 1.3 billion respectively) and they are the worlds three biggest countries and they decision will have massive ramifications on the world over the next decade. In my lifetime we may be faced with a world in turmoil with countries and cities sinking beneath the now much larger ocean and the world will be plunging into a new ice age as the amount of fresh water from the melting ice caps will shut of the world’s gulf streams. These actions will most certainly be the result of the actions of these great countries in my early lifespan but in the future we will never blame them and will try to find scapegoats. The only way we will avoid this man-made Armageddon would be the recognition of climate change as an omnipresent and ultimately malicious force that must be combated and not ignored. The major problem is that people often are very bureaucratic when it comes to these issues and often try to hide away from their own mistakes and try to ignore the issue that is staring them in the face. There is a growing appreciation of this in the United Kingdom but we are only a small country in terms of world politics and in terms of population and our actions will only be a drop in the ocean and more needs to be done to recognise the threat. There are also a lot of problems from developing nations in Asia and South America that need to cause damage to their environment to develop and are unwilling to stop and they cite the destruction of woodlands in Europe over the past two millennia as reason to continue. These problems will be the major issues in the future as we have to become more and more aware of the possible outcomes of a global shift of climate and the major countries of the world (both political and in terms of population) need to be made aware or else all our actions in the United Kingdom will be fruitless.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028425/Scientists-exaggerate-climate-change-fears-majority-Britons-believe.html
read the article not laugh at the photo!
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In the last section you talk about the countries of Asia and South America destroying their environment (such as the rainforests?) and a reason for them to do so is because Europe had done so. What right does anyone have to prevent a country doing what it pleases with its land? Surely they have the same right to develop as Europe had?
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