COLLINS: The global conspiracy on climate change
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WHETHER IT’S SOME POLITICAL PARTY trying to argue against what is already proven, or other groups just refusing to believe that change is happening, or the self-styled experts who suggest that we’re just going through another historical cycle, the study of our climate is one of the highest priorities in these troubled times.
Understanding what we’re facing is critical. Climate change is happening at an almost breakneck pace. We’ve all seen the warnings but would rather sacrifice short-term gain for long-term pain. To help keep our economy active, we’re willing to start up the development of more pipelines to allow increased access to markets and revenue which, in 20 years, will come back to haunt us.
Those who believe this is just part of a cycle that recurs every so often in history should look beyond the headlines and dig deeper. The magnitude of temperature change will soon be devastating and almost irreparable. Ice caps are melting, more droughts are occurring and thus more land is razed by wildfires. Plants and wildlife are already starting to change their genetic makeup. They will likely survive in some form. We, however, who have the ability to find new solutions and fail to act or hide our head in the sand waiting for some higher power to cast his or her hands upon the land and make it whole again, will be sorely disappointed. Miracles may still happen but I have my doubts.
Even our Indigenous peoples are abandoning their return to the old ways, to live by the values they claim they want to return to, and are busy signing all sorts of agreements, allowing pipelines to traverse their land and create all sorts of other development which only exists to make money.
