Dr Paul Sinclair of the Australian Conservation Foundation serves on our advisory board here at the OEP. In this article, he goes further, and with more personal sentiment, than most commentators in invoking a sense of urgency in relation to global warming.
“We need to keep searching for sources of hope that don’t reside in our political leaders, but are hidden in the ordinary courage our ancestors have shown. Our leaders will have to catch up.”
While Sinclair believes “The earth and its people are worth fighting for”, Prof. Steve Schneider’s talk at the Arts Centre, Melbourne on 16th March 09 was very sanguine about the current evidence that climatic ‘tipping points’ have been reached. For him, the probability that this has already occurred, leading to more rapid change effects, is rising.
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