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Australia is burning up under record high temperatures. Other regions have also experienced widespread wildfires, storms, floods and record heat recently. This includes California, Mozambique, the arctic, Tasmania, Bangladesh and the Caribbean, to name a few.
A hallmark of the changing climate is the unevenness of its distribution, intensity and impact on people. The Earth has now warmed on average by about one degree centigrade in the Industrial Age, but one-tenth of the globe has already exceeded a two degree increase.
However, one thing remains constant. It is the lives of the poor and the vulnerable that are most disrupted by climate change, yet they are the least responsible for its underlying cause. Rich and powerful individuals and countries can more readily adapt to these transformations, despite the fact that they are historically the most responsible for burning the fossil fuels which is driving the current rapid warming of our climate.
Individual responsibility is essential but not sufficient to reduce the impact of climate change. Let us resolve to both become personally engaged in addressing this matter in 2020 and urge our local and national representatives to take effective action as well.
David Ryser
Sandy
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