Go to OIL CHANGE and you’ll read that global emissions of carbon dioxide need to be reduced at a far greater and faster rate than predicted just a few years ago.
* Reduced by 90 per cent.
The only other place I’d read the figure of 90 per cent was in the book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot [see recommended reading in right hand margin].
I thought George was referring only to his homeland, Great Britain, because they’re all so bloody wasteful over there, eh what?
Apparently, they're not alone.
Hang onto your seatbelts, we’re all in for a rough ride, especially those who have contributed least to Earth's problems.
[Alternatives to fossil fuels are only slowly gaining support]
At OIL CHANGE’s Global Warming link I read the following:
“Climate scientists have, for the past decade, foreseen the need for a 60-80% reduction in the global emissions of carbon dioxide, in order to stop global average temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.”
“Latest predictions are a need for 90% reductions by 2050 (344KB PDF)”
“While the vast majority of those emissions happen in the North, it will be the poorest countries, those can least afford to adapt to a changing climate, who will suffer first and worst.”
We all have to learn to do more with less, maybe even less with less.
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