Only a quarter of the Earth looks as it did before mankind. If we want to enjoy our future, says Erle Ellis, we should stop dreaming about the untouched wild and start valuing the Earth we have created.
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Global warming by any other name is still the same. Call it "Global Leveling" if you may but here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we call it "Death" We are losing lives, our islands are rapidly eroding into the ocean or quickly swallowed up by tsunamis, we don't care what you all call it. All we ask is you put human lives before profits. We are not in the "Human systems" mentioned here of politics, economics and culture that brought these global changes about. We don't have a voice in this big boys club. We do not contribute to the Global mess. However, we carry the heavy price in life and property.
Stop the theories and the speculations, the facts are known. There is a problem. The focus should be on solutions and, fix it! If you think it will never touch your lives, think again. It's the population of island countries dying today and New York and Los Angeles tomorrow.