St. Maarten Private Eye

Climate Change is already happening and even if the whole planet stopped emissions today we already have a big price to pay. Have you heard of tipping points? These are events and effects that we are incapable of fixing, ocean currents stalling, permafrost melting releasing vast amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas far worse than CO2. Greenland and Antarctic land based ice sheets speeding up their slide into the ocean, raising sea levels and adding to the problem. (White ice reflects the sun's heat, dark sea and land absorbs it.)

The World is a small place, what goes on in one country can seriously affect others. The Amazon has been called the 'lungs of the World' and hundreds of thousands of acres are being torn up every year. Rain forests and trees bring rain and the Amazon is in danger of drying up and becoming scrub land and grasses like Africa.

Everyone, every individual on this planet has a responsibility to understand this problem we all face, as Flipper said, millions around the World are doing their 'little' bit and added together it can make a difference, or maybe buy us a little time. Obama say's he will appoint Gore as his lead man on this issue and for that reason alone he would get my vote, if I had one.

We are borrowing this planet we live on, from our children and grandchildren and all the generations that come after. It is incredibly immoral and contemptuous for anyone to suggest we are too small to do anything, that whatever we did would make no difference, so we should do nothing. Do you even comprehend the scope and dimensions of the problem every one of us and our planet is facing? Everything is on the table in the pot, everything. And all of us, individually have a moral obligation and responsibility to accept and embrace.

I agree too that the time for talking passed a long time ago, Maria comes late to the table and has a great deal of catching up to do. Showing Gore's movie to the public would have been admirable 2 years ago when it came out, showing it now only shows there is at least a hope this issue will start to be taken seriously. But we don't have time for workshops, movie shows and press releases, we need action and progressive enlightened policies, now.

Caribdude