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VeeVee, much as I like you and know that you're a very caring and compassionate person your take on this is so Panglossian.
The people who are already the poorest and most wretched are the ones who will suffer the effects of climate change the earliest and the most severely. They are also the people who have benefited the least - if at all - from the 'development' that has caused global warming. How anyone can spin a positive way of looking at this grotesque injustice and horror is beyond me.
Global warming will lead to more wars; there are already conflicts that have their roots in the need for water and this will get much worse. The chances of a nuclear war are now higher than they have ever been. Everything that is awful and cruel about human existence will increase.
If the papers are so keen to spread doom and gloom then why was this article on page 25 of the Guardian? It is, by a huge margin, the most important story in the paper. The problem has been that the media has been so catastrophically bad at reporting this issue, not by sensationalising it but by down playing it.
To compare it to bird flu and such stories is misleading.
My feeling is that it doesn't matter what I do now; doesn't matter if I recycle or if I heat my flat entirely by burning polar bears, it's too late. The argument about climate change was settled ten or even twenty years ago and there was a chance then to stop it; it didn't happen because of the greed and psychopathic ideology of large corporations and their friends in the media and, most of all, in the White House during the last eight years. The likely legacy of George Bush will be the extinction of human life.