So, we now have more evidence that Global Warming is in fact human induced. An official UN report tells us so. According to an astute scientific panel, it is indeed very likely that we’re doing it to ourselves! Yes, we are responsible for climate change. Connect the dots. There’s no denying it. We have a direct link to Global Warming.
Yet, for so long, and with such intensity, we have been constantly hearing the very opposite by contrary voices—that there is no real evidence for Global Warming, that it is scientifically unverifiable that we humans are contributing to climate change, that to say so is a mere scam to rip off the people, and so-on and so-forth.
The reality is that those who oppose the very idea of accepting Global Warming as a fact, let alone accepting any human responsibility for it, are the same big, powerful, money and corporate people that stand to shoulder a great deal of responsibility and blame, when confronted with reality—that their own business practices have directly fed into the Global Warming phenomena (though, admittedly, we all are to share some degree of blame, given the lifestyle that we have chosen to embrace at the expense of good ecological earth management.
Now we are being told that it is urgent we act now, immediately! Or, we shall soon see terrible traumatic effects on our weather patterns, our sea-levels, and a dramatic change in the arctic region. Duh! Honest good-hearted scientists of integrity have been trying to warn us of this reality for decades now. But they were effectively told to shut up! Until now, I suppose.
We must immediately reverse decades of global greenhouse gas emissions, which are accumulating in the atmosphere and are a direct link to the cause of Global Warming. We must find and use the technology, funding, and the social/political will to reverse the trend of climate change and build what is called a new “low carbon society.”
But here’s a question, who is going to pay for it? I’ll give you a hint. It won’t be the rich and powerful or the mega companies and corporations whose industrial polluting actions have been, and continue to be, the major contributing factor in our Global Warming phenomena.
And just how exactly are we going to combat this climate change phenomena? Obviously it is a national, domestic and private, as well as multi-corporate and international problem, a problem for all of us on planet earth. But, what then are the specifics for addressing this global problem? What kinds of sacrifices are we going to have to make? What! Make sacrifices? Most likely, yes! But who exactly will be bearing the brunt of the most extreme sacrificial acts that will be demanded of humanity in order to prevent global warming disasters? Take a guess.
My guess is that the very same people that have forestalled and persistently denied and constantly countered the reality and existence of Global Warming in the first place, will also be the same people who will most resist accepting any responsibility for making any sacrifices toward correcting the phenomena, yet will have been most directly linked in having created this climate change crisis by virtue of their industrial business practices from the get-go. It’s called, “Take the money and run.” Even so, it is still true that we all share responsibility and blame for this global crisis. For, most of us continue to be quite complacent about it.
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