Being Green - 06 September 2019
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MORE BRICKS IN THE WALL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The news has not been comfortable this week. But then news, the stock-in-trade of the media, is commonly bad news – bad news sells, sensationally bad news sells best. There is good news, with a positive angle, and you hear it here on Being Green whenever we can squeeze in some good news.
Which is to say it’s not good news this week.
More bricks in the wall on climate change. Hurricane Dorian, sweeping along the Eastern seaboard of the USA, is downgraded to a violent tropical storm after the devastating tempest attack on the Bahamas, with highest wind speeds ever recorded. Another extreme weather event. And there are some equally ferocious hurricanes in the far East, and over the Indian ocean.
Even the most determined climate-change denier will have to admit that something’s going on. Of course it’s glib to say, there you are, it all ties up and we’re bound for catastrophe. But I think it’s fair to say we can use the term ‘climate change emergency’ without sensationalism.
The news has not been comfortable this week. But then news, the stock-in-trade of the media, is commonly bad news – bad news sells, sensationally bad news sells best. There is good news, with a positive angle, and you hear it here on Being Green whenever we can squeeze in some good news.
Which is to say it’s not good news this week.
More bricks in the wall on climate change. Hurricane Dorian, sweeping along the Eastern seaboard of the USA, is downgraded to a violent tropical storm after the devastating tempest attack on the Bahamas, with highest wind speeds ever recorded. Another extreme weather event. And there are some equally ferocious hurricanes in the far East, and over the Indian ocean.
Even the most determined climate-change denier will have to admit that something’s going on. Of course it’s glib to say, there you are, it all ties up and we’re bound for catastrophe. But I think it’s fair to say we can use the term ‘climate change emergency’ without sensationalism.
