They’ve got the name wrong.
Why is there all this fuss about 'Climate Change'?After all, we all like warm weather, and just a couple of degrees won’t make much difference. Wrong.
My first observation having seen numerous presentations by scientists, and met experts around the world is that the conference has the wrong name. Climate Change doesn’t accurately describe what the problem is nor the enormity of the problem.
The conference is about a lot more than carbon or temperature. These two measurements just happen to affect every ecosystem in the world and seeing as it is these ecosystems (our planet) that provide our food and raw materials for every aspect of our lives, it’s a pretty broad topic of conversation.
So think of it as a conference to discuss: the extinction of entire species, the destruction of forests, the melting of glaciers and ice caps, the expansion of deserts, the acidification of the oceans, the pollution of the air, the increase in destructive super-storms, the bleaching of coral reefs, the vanishing of sunny beaches, the spread of disease, conflict over water scarcity, famine caused by crop failure, massive inequality between rich and poor, less food security, less supply of all the materials to make the stuff we ‘need’, and the flooding of all our coastal towns and cities. It is about how we live today and what our tomorrow will look like.
The conference is really about changing everything.