TABLE OF CONTENTS If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson
Change is inevitable! In the case of the environment, desirable or we will go the way of the dinosaurs. Change is the solution.
That earth systems are in trouble is evidenced by a variety of symptoms including global warming, pollution, salinity, loss of biodiversity and many others on a long list. The most frightening to our own survival is loss of oxygen in the atmosphere and increase in carbon dioxide causing global warming and significant climate change. Climate change is in the news all the time. As Mark Twain said, 'Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it.' Britain, Germany and one or two other countries are the only ones that appear to have grasped the significance of the problem.
According to the UK Hadley Centre, most of the world's forests will begin to turn from sinks to sources - dying off and emitting carbon - by around 2040 (Gelbspan, 2004). Recently Robin Batterham, Australia's chief scientist, said he supported the Federal Government's decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change because the reductions it set were not high enough. 'I'm talking about enormous reductions - 80 per cent by the end of the century,' Dr Batterham said. 'Fifty per...
