Welcome to 2011 everyone. A short post to kick of the new year in terms of posts seemed appropriate today.
This is a great video I wanted to share about the current global warning sentiment and terminology confusion. Way over the top but also so true. Enjoy!
Thanks to David Connor for pointing me to this great video!
I am a Sustainability geek. I think pretty much everyone that follows my tweets, reads this blog or ever met me in person will agree with me.
A large part of this passion about Sustainability is routing from the urgency I feel to convince as many people as possible that climate change is happening and that we need to tackle climate change together to create the future for our children we want them to have.
Today’s video post is a reminder that we all need to do our best to convince everyone that Climate Change is happening. And who would be better suited to deliver this message….Al Gore of course.
The post title pretty much says it all. Will we ever convince the climate change deniers? What do you think? Have you had experiences with people or groups that categorically did not want to accept that climate change is happening?
I have and I find it extremely frustrating to see, hear and read that someone does not believe that climate change is happening. It seems that we will for the foreseeable future always have these two opposing fronts. The climate change advocates and the deniers.
I am seeing myself as you can imagine, as a climate change advocate but here are some examples from recent environmental discussion forums that are discussing this day and day out with utter determination:After the failure of the COP15 in Copenhagen, the world in economic slowdown and the PR disaster of ClimateGate what are the options for climate change advocates? Business as usual?
Todays post addresses a very difficult topic. Nuclear disarmament and Climate Change. This topic has been swirling in my head for a while now and this post is the result of these thoughts. So what do these two topics have in common?
Very good question. This is how I draw the connection.
The connection between these two is that both topics are incredibly important for the future of our civilization and the wellbeing of upcoming generations. The big threat with nuclear weapons is that, if worse comes to worse, nuclear weapons could destroy our world within hours. Climate Change in my opinion is even more dangerous as it is destroying our world in the same way, but not just in hours but years in way that we do not pick up when we go on with our daily life’s. This is the similarity between these two topics but also the big problem.
The problem is that currently I feel that the nuclear weapons threat is even being seen as far more important then the threat of climate change.
The recent Nuclear Security Summit
I see evidence of that mind set in the latest commitment of the US president Obama by hosting the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington not so long ago. Here is the link for more information: Nuclear Security Summit
The result was an encouraging one in terms of nuclear disarmament . This is what the conclusion paper starts with:
“Obama administration national security officials say the April 12–13 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington succeeded not only in increasing international recognition of the shared threat from nuclear terrorism, but also resulted in concrete actions and decisions from the participants, ranging from increasing the security of nuclear materials and expertise to reducing the availability of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.”
It is a good result do not get me wrong. I am not implying in any way that nuclear weapons are not highly dangerous to our future and that disarmament is extremely important. But when you are working in the Sustainability/ CSR field and you are passionate about seeing change in the world with regards to Climate Change this situation is so frustrating.
The two day Nuclear Security Summit has ended with concrete and well worked-through commitments and the same nations and same leaders can not work with the rest of the world to formulate and commit to tackle Climate Change when they met at the Copenhagen Summit back in December 2009?
The big disconnect
I see a big disconnect and lack of proper judgment by our leaders in this case and that we in the Sustainability / CSR movement still have a long way to go to convince our so called leaders that they need to do much more to address and help us tackle the threat of climate change. We need an absolute commitment and leaders working together, nothing more and nothing less.
Climate Change may not threaten each others future right away and in an way that nuclear weapons do but I believe both topics need to have the same priority when our leaders are trying to work towards a future that is worth handing over to our children.
Picture Credit: Jonas B
Today’s post is another great video on Climate Change. But this time something different.
Modern technology has enabled us to monitor many aspects of climate change but this video shows 1 month of the global climate in 25 seconds.
Take a look and let me know what you think. One tip: Look at the Amazon rainforest or the rainforest in Africa. You can see them breathe. Amazing.
Here is another excellent example of how a video can be very effective in bringing a simple message across in a very powerful way.
If you are looking for the ultimate video to show to the Climate Change and Global Warming sceptics in your life then show them this clip:
I know whom I will show this for sure. Maybe then they will finally get it that we need to ACT NOW to save our planet.