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Fight Climate Change like it is World War Three

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The battle to deal with climate change needs to be fought like "World War Three", the head of the Environment Agency has warned.

The agency's chief executive Lady Young said current measures to adapt to a changing climate were "too little, too slowly", and an huge effort was needed to address the crisis.

Lady Young: Current measures were "too little, too slowly"
Lady Young: Current measures were 'too little'

Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary, warned the agency's annual conference in London that global warming was a challenge to security, migration, politics and economics as well as the environment.

Lady Young told the conference that Britain would face more droughts, flooding, coastal erosion and loss of biodiversity as the climate altered.

She said measures such as improving the resilience of existing homes to flooding, not building on floodplains and improving water use efficiency were needed.


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Martin

now there's someone speaking my language!..................
Ina

Martin - have you read the UN report yet? 572 pages... I'm trying to fight my way through it, but nae much time at the moment!
Martin

like most people, I've had a hefty "skim" of the contents and their conclusions - http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media/index.asp - it's enough to give me the willies, and I thought I already had a fairly accurate and gloomy view of our futures :?
Here it is, in black and white - we're going to hell in a handcart, and all we get from governments is hot air and inaction - they're too worried about upsetting their applecart house of cards, and still bleat on about "economic growth", and refusing to halt airport expansion......
I'll say it again - we SHOULD be on a near-war footing to try to ameliorate the worst effects - instead we are hurtling ever faster towards the end of mankind on earth!
Ina

Martin wrote:
and all we get from governments is hot air


I wish - would get the temperature in my house up to something a bit more comfy without wasting energy!
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