The delicious aroma of a barbeque can drift into the house and reach every room. Climate change has no boundaries either. A coal power station can cause the ocean to rise very slightly somewhere else far, far away. We are reminded once again of John Donne’s 1624 prose poem. With English updated, it reads:
“No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were. Any man’s death diminishes me.”
In the Same Way, Climate Change Has No Exceptions
We could live completely off the grid, and burn no fossil fuel whatsoever. Even so, a coal brazier on the far side of the Earth would affect us as much as the owner.
We agree with the Aciona website it is time for the nations to trust each other to work together.
We have entered the Anthropocene Era. Climatologists will look back in the future to this tipping point, when human activity began to threaten our sustainability. Consider the following scientific facts in the light of there are no boundaries.
There Are No Limits or Borders to These Effects
Climate change has already begun to melt the Polar and Greenland ice. There is a huge amount of frozen water there. This is sufficient to flood all coastal cities and island states. Increasing global temperatures are already causing bizarre weather, and raging forest fires that threaten to devastate large parts of California.
We are already seeing increasing desertification. This is threatening the sustainability of human life in dry countries. Uncounted numbers of people have become refugees in their own homes. These are some of the people streaming into Europe and North America. Climate change has no friends and it takes no prisoners either.
We ought not to expect to escape the consequences of our inability to grasp this in the West. No nation is an ‘island entirely of itself’. We are all part of the same ‘,main’ for we live on the same Earth.
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