Global Warming

I can't help but think that we're in trouble. Serious trouble. I read recently that scientists are predicting that one of the Poles will COMPLETELY melt by the summer of 2040. Rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, the end of the Gulf Stream? Blimey! I can just imagine the tide of humanity that will be forced to move to higher or more fertile ground. Of course, the people on that hallowed ground will not welcome all the millions of new 'invaders' with open arms and then the real trouble will begin. I think the weather will be the least of our problems. It will be a catastrophe of gigantic proportions and literally, God help us.

But that got me thinking, maybe we can help ourselves.

It is obviously not too late. Take the UK for instance, who are about 1% of the world's population and about 2% of the total carbon emissions (because the average UK citizen is twice as carbon greedy as the average Worldishman). But the whole country could become carbon neutral and the world would still have 98% of the problem. This is the real issue. This is a GLOBAL problem that needs GLOBAL co-operation. Everyone needs to work together to reduce the carbon levels and the other greenhouse gases. That is why I think we are in trouble. We are CRAP at co-operating globally because we all want to look after our own back yard, our own interests, our own countries, our own economies. Look at the UN. I rest my case.

No government has EVER been voted in on what they are going to do for the PLANET.

Look, we are not going to stop China or India developing at the rate they are going. They too will eventually catch up with the UK and become twice as carbon greedy as the average. But they are the average, they are HALF of the world's population!

So, science and industry got us into this mess and they are the ones that will have to get us out of it. Look, there are many, many solutions to the carbon level problem and personally, I think plankton has got great potential. But who is going to pay for the seeding of trillions and trillions of plankton just so that they can suck the carbon out of the atmosphere and die and fall to the bottom of the ocean (thereby trapping the carbon on the sea floor)? It is a global problem. It is a global bill. Who is going to pay? I fear, eventually, we will all pay a far greater price than we ever dreamed possible. Don't take comfort from those scientists that say global warming is not happening, they are probably on the payroll of some oil giant somewhere. Confusion and doubt in the public mind is their greatest ally. They want you to keep driving your car and burning that electricity oil. They are looking after their own interest. That's all. Isn't it time we looked after ours?

Look, I haven't got all the answers but I do know we need to take action and take it now, before it is too late. Over to YOU.