The United Nations warned today that a continued failure to
tackle climate change was putting at risk decades of progress in
improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. In its annual
flagship report on the state of the world, the UN said
unsustainable patterns of consumption and production posed the
biggest challenge to the anti-poverty drive. “For human
development to become truly sustainable, the close link between
economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions needs to be
severed,” the UN said in its annual human development report.
How many more articles, daily scientific reports and lines of
hard evidence connecting man’s activities to climate change do
we need before we do something about it? How many more national
and global scientific organisations do we need to add to the
immense list of those who warn us about the dangers of relying
upon fossil fuels? When the decades of science that proves man-
made climate change is a reality is as tight as the science that
connects HIV to aids and that smokin