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Is Climate Change Serious?
From early in this century I started to notice people talking about global warming and the harm it would do to the world we know. It seemed hard to believe that the world around me was really in any danger and as our government didn't seem to feel any great urgency to act I wasn't unduly worried.
I watched the 2006 film "an Inconvenient Truth"fairly soon after it came out. It was shocking and worrying but I didn't know what I could do to change anything, so I forgot about it. Again, part of me assumed our politicians were working in our best interests, so were bound to do something about it if it was important.
Waking Up
This all changed early in 2019. People were talking about Extinction Rebellion, a group who were taking global warming seriously and were quoting climate scientists when explaining why they thought we all needed to take it seriously. Then David Attenborough presented a programme on the BBC called Climate Change: the Facts in which a number of eminent climate scientists explained what global warming and climate change were and how the high amount of fossil fuels were are burning is causing it. They also explained the serious consequences of us carrying on as normal.
If you haven't already seen it or haven't watched it recently I recommend you finding an hour to watch it when you aren't too tired, although I hope the message is serious enough to wake anyone up. It's crucial that we all understand what is happening. Sadly the lack of action in the last few years means we're going to find it extremely difficult to stay below 1.5ยบ C of global warming. The programme now seems a bit optimistic, but if we pull out all the stops we might still make it.
Climate Change the Facts on YouTube
It's still available on the BBC as well.
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