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A recent study into adapting to climate change showed that it is no longer an issue for governments to resolve alone. The private sector needs to be more involved in making decisions too. Natural resource constraints, manufacturing or logistical interruptions, and financial or economic crises mean the private sector has to take action.
Leading economist and activist Jeffrey Sachs believes that there are many practical things individuals can do to make a positive difference in the world.
No more prizes now for forecasting the rain; only prizes for building the Ark - Don Beck
My position on the climate is to avoid releasing pollutants into the atmosphere, regardless of current expert opinion. Climate experts, like banking risk managers, have failed us in the past in foreseeing long-term damage. This is an extension of my general belief: "Do not disturb a complex system." We do not know the consequences of our actions (this idea also makes me anti-war), and I have explicitly stated the need to leave the planet the way we got it - Nassim Taleb
By pumping vast amounts of warming gases into the atmosphere, we are creating a new era: the Anthropocene, in which man makes the weather. There is an imminent danger of it bursting beyond these safe parameters, and bringing about a return to the violent, volatile variations that prevented our ancestors from progressing beyond spears and sticks - Johann Hari, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-ha…
By 2030, climate change will indirectly cause nearly one million deaths a year and inflict US$157 billion in damage, according to estimates presented at U.N. talks in December 2010.
Concern is growing over the state of the Earth's nine, interdependent, "life-support systems".
A new scientific report claims that every two weeks, the sun pours more energy onto the surface of Earth than we use from all sources in an entire year. It is an inexhaustible powerhouse that has remained largely untapped for human energy needs: but that may soon change in a big way.
Preliminary designs in a German report show electricity reaching Europe via 20 high-voltage direct-current power lines. Trans-Mediterranean links will cross from Morocco to Spain, from Algeria to France, from Tunisia to Italy; from Libya to Greece; and from Egypt to Turkey via Cyprus.