Posted on 09/13/2018 9:45:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is here now, and it’s time to urgently ask ourselves: What kind of future do we want to work toward? The air we breathe is key to answering this question. Global warming is not just manifesting in devastating fires, floods and heatwaves; its causes are impacting nearly every breath we take.
A recent World Health Organization report said that nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe dangerous air, and an estimated 7 million premature deaths a year are caused by air pollution-related diseases, including stroke and heart disease, respiratory illness and cancer.
The most vulnerable people are impacted the hardest. Fossil fuel combustion byproducts have been deemed one of the most serious threats to children’s health and global equality. Emerging evidence indicates that pollution from coal combustion and motor vehicles has been linked to development delays, reduced IQ and autism in children.
Carrying on along this trajectory is irresponsible and absolutely unacceptable.
But another trajectory is emerging as more people are standing up and campaigning for their inalienable right to clean air - and therefore, to life. On Wednesday in San Francisco, the Global Climate and Health Forum is bringing together 250 leaders to generate momentum and commitments for action on climate and health.
We know that a comprehensive response to climate change could be “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.” The New Climate Economy report just out shows it will also deliver at least $26 trillion in economic gain over business as usual by 2030.
However, to do this within the window of time we have left to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must act with boldness and unprecedented urgency. There is no time to lose. Every breath matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Every single word Christiana Figueres wrote in this “op ed” is either a wild exaggeration, speculation without scientific fact to back it up, or an outright lie. This is normal for the corrupt Climate Change Technocracy.
from 2/2-15:At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
The pigeon waste absorbency index on this one is off the charts.
What did your dogs ever do to you?
So true!!
I've been noticing clothing for a colder climate hitting the shops.
IIRC; I also saw clothing for a warmer climate about 6 months ago.
Run; no RACE!!! to your local bigbox hardware store for sky props before they are all gone!
This has been going on for years now. You can't tell me there isn't a conspiracy involved. They're all in on it.
Back in 1942, MGM produced a Traveltalks on Glacier and Waterton National Parks. It was mentioned that glaciers were receding since the last Ice Age, “and if there is NO CLIMATIC CHANGE, they will be gone in a thousand years”.
So they are going to melt no matter what.
Of COURSE it was - back THEN!
But now?
We humans are MUCH smarter; and by golly; we'll FIX it!
I think we can count on the support of every plant on earth in this.
Especially when our plants, my timber and fruit trees and garden need CO2 to survive. With the fir trees dying out here in the west, who is to say it is a drought and not that our trees are starving for CO2 that the left has tried to eliminate. They even took it all the way to the Supreme Court to declare our life giving CO2 is a pollutant, insane!
#metoo!
Other than the sun NOT shining on me.
But then; I could feel THAT change by merely getting in the SHADE of a building or something.
All these climate change histerics remind me of the movie “Changing places “. I imagine George Soros and some other evil bastard having a one dollar bet that they can get the idiots in governments to tax the weather.
I shuuda read ahead; but then...
GMTA anyhow.
Recent research into the lives of The Rich & Famous has disclosed that their closets contain clothing for BOTH extremes of temperature!
Why can't we POOR folk have the same??!!??
BY Jove!
I think you’ve got it!
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