SCIENTISTS suggest that the resulting pressure on our planet earth’s finite resources is being manifested in the uncontrollable rising global temperatures, already creating very uncertain world-wide weather patterns and changes in the climate with world-wide effect on sea levels and current agriculture.
This is, of course, an over simplification but serves to show extreme climate change made by our-man-made-activity is a huge problem that we cannot just simply ignore.
There are no simple short-term fixes and the time scale of positive action showing positive results is measured in decades, not years.
The United Nations recognises this, having held its first annual United Nations conference on Climate Change in Berlin in 1995.
However, as seen in so many human tragedies being unfolded throughout the world such as the more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, the UN has no powers of enforcement.
A reporter Richard Black who attended the 12th Conference in 2006 concluded, there was [and still is] a disconnect between the political process and the scientific imperative.
Then at the 2016 Conference, the UN General Assembly called for the global economy in all sectors to be transformed to achieve a low emissions global economy.
In short, to date little positive action has been taken.
In fact, as the latest global Summit on Climate Change in the oil producing country showed we were, apparently, taking a step backwards!
Earth Hour, together with Earth Day, draws our attention to this urgent and potentially totally irreversible threat to human societies, human existence and the planet earth from humanity-created climate change.
Our collective attention, ingenuity, and resources on a global scale is needed now to stabilise and, hopefully, reverse present trends of rising global temperatures changes.
Thailand’s year-long woes is an example of the worst scenario in climate change .
Sinking Bangkok will be totally beneath sea level with in a century.
Prediction indicates that as early as 2030 almost all of Bangkok will be vulnerable to floods, with a projection that 96 per cent will be beneath mean sea level .
Abnormal nose bleeding cases caused by pollution have doubled within a very short period. The country is one of the hottest in Asia.
Let’s not be another Thailand where young children are the most affected according to Thai authority, and lifespan is cut short by five years !
The WWF should be congratulated for its efforts to show the need for working towards tackling climate change.
With a third of world population behind him, the new Head of the Commonwealth, King Charles lll, a preeminent and practising environmentalist, long before many started any interest in this subject should be able to make a difference.
His organic farming at Highgrove, is renowned for its quality products. He is supported by his son, Prince William of Wales who has innovative ideas , on a significant scale, in fighting climate change.
Let all of us without exception turn off all our lights during the Earth Hour to show leaders everywhere that the people call for action on what is undeniably the most serious universal long-term problem we have to face.
That it is time that nations should not simply pay lip service but walk the talk for the sake of generations to come .
