The IPCC has identified global warming as a challenge for humankind, a challenge that is admittedly formidable. Surely, we will find solutions to whatever problems loom ominously before us, particularly since global warming appears to be a phenomenon that has been forced into existence by the leviathan-like scale and prodigious growth rate of the human species worldwide.

If we choose to rely upon the best available scientific evidence, reason and common sense, our children will be assured a good enough future, I believe.

Momentum is building around the scientific consensus on climate change. Many are the signs of forward movement and nascent change as we acknowledge and begin to address the global challenges posed to humanity by human-forced activities that are resulting in pernicious global warming.

We will overcome humankind's momentary collective blindness; our ineffectual economic powerbrokers and political leaders; the ignorant naysayers, rankled denialists and manufacturers of controversy; and the hysterically deaf, willfully blind and electively mute among us as well as those more clever ones who speak with contrived logic and forked tongues, who peddle disinformation, half-truths and outright prevarications.

Do not be fooled.

Support the good works of Al Gore, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri and 2000 scientists of the IPCC.

By accepting their leadership and supporting their efforts, we can make a difference by changing the world for the better.......before the folly, egoism and hubris of the "powers that be" inadvertently destroy Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

Unfortunately, too many politicians and corporate CEOs are ignominiously disregarding consistent and overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming and other pernicious forms of climate change. What is woefully inadequate, what is unconscionable, is the dearth of reasonable and sensible leadership by those who have assumed the responsibilities of positions of power in the political economy.

Business-as-usual that adamantly and relentlessly favors unbridled industrialization and unrestrained economic globalization could be approaching a point in history when the huge scale and rapid growth rate of endlessly expanding business activities could soon to become patently unsustainable on a relatively small, finite, noticeably frangible planet the size of Earth.

Perhaps now is the time for leaders to acknowledge a handfull of world problems, the reality of which most people with power in the political economy remain in denial.

Given the probability that certain dimly visible but identifiable global problems can be expected to fall into the laps of our children and their children, it appears somehow not quite right both to willfully leave these problems unattended and, even more disturbing, to fail in the exercise of a DUTY TO WARN our children: a duty to warn them of potential dangers to life as we know it and to the integrity of Earth.

Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
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