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Two earthly halves locked in a downward spiral

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Jeremy Clarkson recently became a climate change believer when he experienced a dry lake in Cambodia.

I recently experienced something of the bush fire season in Australia. As well as all-pervasive smoke in most of Queensland and New South Wales, ABC Radio news is a constant stream of news on the bush fires – hundreds of them raging all the time. And it is still their spring.

Without trying to rehearse the dangers of climate change, I have one particular fear.

There is an extent to which the world is divided into two. I am over-generalising but if you take the lower portion below the tropic of cancer and the upper half above it: The bottom half is disproprotionately hot and getting much hotter – suffering terrible effects from climate change, and generally poorer than the top half.

My fear is that the people causing most of the problem of climate change are in the upper half and are able to retreat to the cool fresh air and air conditioning.

So the top half people don’t see a problem and carry on pumping out carbon emissions, while the lower half suffer without the means to change things.

And together we are walking through a disaster.

It is the stuff of nightmares.

* Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. He is one of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. He blogs at Liberal Burblings.


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