Climate Change: What We Should be Doing NOW!

I woke up this morning to find the weather forecast was correct - pouring with rain. No let up till this afternoon.
By mid-afternoon I could no longer resist visiting the allotment, and discovered that Nosher was already there, hunkered down in his shed.
'Nothing doing' he muttered from his deckchair, his stockinged feet resting on a dusty shelf, his hands clasped behind his head.
I opened out my deckchair and assumed much the same position.
For a while we both looked out of the small cobwebbed window onto the collection of large puddles that only recently had been our allotment plots.
The rain continued to pour down.
'An inch so far, according to my rain gauge' Nosher informed me. 'If this is global warming and it gets any worse, we'll need boats in order to get around.'
'It may amuse you to learn that at the G8 conference they've agreed in principle to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2050' I told him 'although China, which wasn't represented, of course, has already said it won't comply, and I doubt that India will either.'
Nosher snorted with derision.
'Another Kyoto, then! It will not make the slightest bit of difference. What we should be doing instead of spending mind-boggling amounts of money trying to ward off climate change - it's going to happen whatever we do - is to start organising for the worst. And that means figuring out how much land mass we are going to lose due to sea level rise, and what should be done with the hundreds of millions of displaced people. If this isn't done in an orderly and timely fashion, the world will simply descend into anarchy as thousands of boatloads of people turn up with nowhere else to go. The disruption to the world economy could be catastrophic. The time for action is now, not wittering on about about reducing carbon emissions - it's already too late for that to have any effect.'
Much as I hate to agree with Nosher at times, I have to admit I think he is right.
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