Can Anyone Save Us from Climate Change?
A Nobel prize winning UN panel published a report this week that states that we only have about ten years to take drastic measures to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. If we fail to meet that cap in global warming, we face catastrophic changes to the earth's ecosystem, which include the death of all coral reefs, rising of sea levels, increased droughts, famines, deaths from catastrophic storms and heat waves, and decreased animal habitats. There may be mass human migrations as some now populated land become uninhabitable. Wars may break out over rights to scarce water supplies. Crops that are now grown abundantly may cease to grow, causing widespread famines. Scientists may need to find new drought resistant crops for food sources. Even many of the insects that now populate our planet may cease to exist. This sobering report makes me feel like Tea Leoni ' s character in "Deep Impact" as she
