Why Should You Care?

Consider the following:

  1. Do you regard significant climate change as a possibility? (not fact, or proven, or even likely - just possible)
  2. Do you want your children to live in a world that is as civilised as it can be?
  3. Do you agree that any significant climate change, if it occurs, will adversely affect civilisation?

If you answered yes to all these questions, then you need to act now. It does not matter if you only think that climate change has a low probability of undermining civilisation. That probability should be enough to make action a high priority, since the consequences of not acting are a price that no sane person would ever agree to pay.

If you were told that there was a 5% chance that your house would burn to the ground if you left your TV plugged in overnight, you would remember to unplug it, on most nights, yes? The degree of loss, compared with the cost of action, is enormous, and even a low probability is outwieghed by the simple principle - 'why take stupid chances'.

Global warming carries a similar enormous risk - far greater than a housefire. If even the most conservative predictions come true, we could see billions dying of starvation, global warfare to protect water rights and ever-diminishing areas of productive land to grow food, a complete breakdown of infrastructure and governance, and the extinction of thousands, if not millions, of species, including, if we are not very lucky, our own.

Compared to the size of the risk, and the possibility that it may already be too late to prevent some of it, the cost of taking action is miniscule. All that is needed is for you to lobby your democratic reprasentatives and educate your neighbours by distributing the manifesto on the main page of this site. You may not agree with all of the proposals. You may have proposals of your own to add. That is what the discussion forums will determine. Feel free to add to the manifesto with a comment inviting your friends and colleagues to join the discussions. Polls have been added to the site to gauge general levels of support for each proposal, and a consensus of measures arrived at in that way.

The important thing is that you take action, and encourage all the people you know to take action as well. No other political issue is sufficiently wide and absolute in it's potential impact to justify relegating this issue to second place on any agenda.

Thank you for your interest.
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by Simon Oliver

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