Long after ISIS have disappeared, long after austerity or the EU are major issues, climate change will continue to cause death and destruction across the world. If the c*nts who govern us ever pull their fingers out and sort something out, I really hope it's this.

Edited by serial thriller (23 Nov 2015 2.09pm)

Spot-on. The trouble is that few governments have the courage to face up to what is required to control global warming. In fact is not just governments. A large proportion of the global population are happy to pretend it is not happening.

There are too many vested interests who governments fear upsetting. Vested interests who will come up all sorts of spurious reasons as to why global warming is either not happening or not our fault, and the economic damage that will be done if we tackle the problem head-on.

Can we afford to take the chance that it isn't man-made? Well I for one am not willing to! And, all the actions required to combat global warming all stand up as actions that we should be taking irrespective of global warming - cutting pollution, using more renewable energy, protecting our environment for future generations ...

And if you are worried about migration now, just wait until large swathes of Africa become uninhabitable.

Maybe ISIS aren't such a bad thing after all then. I love f*cking hippies.

Just a fortnight on from what we are told was the trigger for global war against terrorism, the capital of France is again playing host to what will surely be one of the defining challenges of our generation. Yet unlike the terrorist attacks, it's incredibly difficult to see these momentous talks gaining the publicity they deserve.

France, which has been supposedly a symbol of tolerance and 'liberte', have gone ahead and banned all forms of protest and activism ahead of the talks. Where Charlie Hebdo continued to be printed after the attacks on its office, supposedly in defiance against the terrorists, apparently this defiance doesn't stretch to environmental campaigners, a group I highly doubt are high on ISIS' radar.

It's very hard to imagine that the talks will be any more successful than those staged in Copenhagen, which were disastrous. Despite almost universal agreement in the scientific world that rapid change has to be made, across the world major and developing nations are shelving the issue, even as the effects of climate change become more and more conclusive. In Britain, Cameron, who was first elected in 2010 with a f*cking tree as his logo to show how important climate change supposedly was to him, has cut the environmental agency more than any other service. This is a great article on how these cuts are already having a massive effect on the wildlife and environment in this country: [Link]

And also, in a first for me, here's Prince Charles getting it spot on: [Link]

Long after ISIS have disappeared, long after austerity or the EU are major issues, climate change will continue to cause death and destruction across the world. If the c*nts who govern us ever pull their fingers out and sort something out, I really hope it's this.

Edited by serial thriller (23 Nov 2015 2.09pm)

I think that we shouldn't not act because of this though.
Perhaps we should have a caveat that any foreign aid given is dependent on those we give aid to following environmental guidelines.
I'm genuinely worried about the future of our planet, not so much for me, but my kids and grandkids (if I ever have any).