4.Living with climate change (794200)
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Living with climate change.
Climate change is Like a supertanker: it is very hard to slow it down. Partly that: is because it is so complex, with impacts on one area having consequences on another thousands of miles away, or a long time into the future. We should try not just to slow down our influence on the climate, but also to live with its consequences.
Drastic changes in Europe.
A recent report from the University of East Anglia for the European Union said that Europe could expect drastic climate changes by 2100. But apart from trying to reverse them, it said, Europe could to some degree learn to adapt.
"It is imperative that we take the first steps to adapting to climate change now by factoring the coming effects into environmental and regional policies," said Professor Martin Parry, of the Jackson Environment Institute. May be the idea of adapting to climate change is an option which only rich countries can afford, and which other species cannot even consider. Even so, it will probably play a growing part in the world's attempts to come to terms with warming.
Energy saving.
"There are other strategies as well. There is the option of doing things more carefully than we do today, notably by using energy more frugally. And the more wasteful a country or an individual is, the more scope for improvement there will be.
We can reduce greenhouse gases simply by improving the efficiency with which power stations burn coal, and by making airlines 10% more fuel-efficient.
There is the option of doing things differently, which means mainly producing energy in different ways: moving away from reliance on the fossil fuel trinity, coal, oil and gas, and towards cleaner energy sources. Some of these will be renewables like solar power, wind and wave energy. Others may include fuel cells and hydrogen-powered cars. And we do not need to wait for the fossil fuels to become prohibitively expensive before we try this. The stone age did not end because the world ran out of stone, so we can hope it will be the same with the oil age.
We shall probably have to learn to live with quite a lot of climate change for a long time before our descendants can reduce it to limits the planet will find bearable. But that does not mean that they (or we) are doomed to return to a medieval lifestyle.
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