Take Costa Rica in Central America as an example. They spend 10% per capita on health care compared to the USA, but their care is focused on prevention, not treatment, and their population is much healthier than most people in the USA, and they live a longer, healthier life. The environment is also benefiting hugely and has become an important part of the tourism industry for the country.
Climate change is the same. Carbon dioxide and methane are symptoms of climate change that have developed into a self-reinforcing loop that is also causing climate change, but we fail to tackle the root cause to break the loop to prevent what will be catastrophic climate disruption.
Nature, such as cyanobacteria, made all our atmosphere. Nature also regulates our climate; for example, water vapour is 70+% of all greenhouse gases, and aerosols of water and natural particles are responsible for clouds, rain, and the planet’s temperature, yet it is not even part of the COP or the IPCC research on climate change.
https://lnkd.in/eF38qsKe
There is no hope of reversing climate change if we follow the current strategy of carbon mitigation. Indeed, we are too late, but we can stop catastrophic climate change and the destruction of nature, the life support system for the planet is we take action now.
This is not something that is going to happen in the distant future. Unless we eliminate toxic chemical pollution, plastic, and partially combusted carbon from the atmosphere, soil, rives, and the world’s oceans, then, in the words of biologists, there will be a regime shift. This is another way of saying the ecosystem will collapse, the life support system for the planet will fail, and there will be mass extinctions far more serious than when the meteorite slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs.
We need to start dealing with pollution and regeneration of nature on a massive, world-wide scale, and it needs to start now with everyone.
Bioclimatic climatic change report; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
