Climate turmoil
“A species capable enough to cause climate change, is also capable enough to cease climate change, but only if we realize our mistakes in time – and that time is now, because later will be too late.” Abhijit Naskar
Evidence of our impact on the climate is all around us. Severe flooding has destroyed homes and livelihoods; forest fires and heatwaves have devestated land and communities, the Atlantic gulf stream is showing signs of reversing potentially causing plummeting temperatures in mild Northern Europe countries. Each successive IPCC report is a more alarming read.
Our future is not climate warming, it is climate turmoil. Radical change could come very quickly with a cascade of “tipping points” where one triggers the next leading, not just to a change in climate, but to social turmoil and climate generated conflict.
We are now have evidence of the incontrovertibility of disruptive climate change, but the urgency of taking radical measures to ameliorate the change is challenged. CCAC deplores the delay of prevarication. We look to the future when the pupils we work with may have children of their own. Our message is that climate change is a global concern which needs global action. We should be taking all possible measures to reduce impacts. However there seems little chance of stopping it in its tracks and that significant disruption is inevitable. We provide the children with the tools to understanding the issues and the means to envisage imaginative and effective accommodation of a turbulent but potentially transformative climate future.