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The bad news is that no matter what we do now, climate change has started and there will be impacts. Gore's efforts are crucial to inspire action that will prevent those impacts from being catastrophic.
However, weaning industrialized economies off fossil fuels will take decades. We need a holistic approach, starting now, to hold down greenhouse gas emissions and help species and people adapt to climate change.
An immediate and cost-effective first step is to protect vital ecosystems such as tropical forests, which store carbon dioxide while providing clean air, fresh water, food, medicines and other natural resources essential to species and people.
Burning and clearing tropical forests emits more greenhouse gases than all the world's cars, trucks and airplanes combined. If we stop or seriously reduce deforestation now, we will reduce harmful emissions and conserve ecosystems depended on by some of the most vulnerable people.
Currently, less than 1 percent of all carbon market investment targets deforestation, which causes more than 20 percent of global carbon emissions. Gore's campaign is great, but we also need to balance investments in proportion to the source of the problem.
It will take man-made technology to find alternative energy solutions, and nature's technology to restore balance in our environment.On Thoughts on the newly announced 'we' campaign posted 1 year, 8 months ago 14 Responses