Global Citizens Face the Challenge of Climate Change
Hommage to the melting glaciers
© Meredith Mullins
COP21 Conference in Paris Brings Focus to the Future of the Planet
Climate change is insidious. Glaciers melt drop by drop, chunk by chunk. Ocean levels rise centimeter by centimeter. Temperatures climb slowly—we sense a warming trend but perhaps cannot see it as dramatic change unless we take a long-term look.
And then there are the more dramatic reminders. Floods. Storms. Droughts. Heat waves. Extinction of certain plants and animals.
The changes are difficult to see day by day, month by month, or even year by year—making the problem of climate change more difficult to bring to the world’s attention. It also makes the problem easy to ignore for those who choose to do so.
But, as global citizens, it is up to all of us to protect the future of the planet.
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