I’m pretty damn terrified right now.
Our future is in the balance. Leaders of countries that are already beginning to suffer hugely damaging natural disasters and humanitarian crises are desperately trying to forge a deal in Cancún, and noone is listening. The American government is now in the hands of the Republicans - the world’s only major political party who, for the most part, don’t believe in man-made climate change. We have 5 - 9 years to entirely transform the way we live our lives - this is urgent - and now this. The American government has killed its Climate Change Committee. As Treehugger elegantly puts it:
The symbolic implications of the move are hard to ignore: Our federal government is no longer going to concern itself with climate change.
Even the American military’s warnings of the threat climate change presents to global peace goes ignored. We will fight on, but everything hangs in the balance.
