COP 26: Global and Personal
At this defining moment in human history, will the world’s representatives make the right choices. Whether they do or not, there are things that the rest of us must do to live with climate change. Pat Ganase comments. (First published Newsday Trinidad and Tobago November 4, 2021) We imagine it could be worse. It could be a zombie apocalypse. Or New York city freezing over in one day. Or a hurricane that sits for 20 hours over one island and demolishes every structure. Or a tsunami that ends 230,000 lives in an instant. Our current life-threatening situation is the prospect of a hotter world, with more violent storms, flooding and drought, and sea level rise, maybe next year or next decade. Perhaps not imminent enough to make us truly fearful. The truth is the earth is a dynamic natural system, self-regulating and balancing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean. This balancing act comes with consequences as humans continue to pump excess CO2 into the ...