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Climate Change: cooperate or perish-by PRAMOD DE SILVA Source:Sundayobserver Climate Change is very much in the news these days, with the COP 27 (Conference of Parties) Climate Change Conference being in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt until November 18. Even as the negotiations get under way in this famous Egyptian City, severe flooding and other freak weather events have been reported from many parts of the world, drawing attention to the urgent need to address Climate Change. Although there are one or two COP meetings every year, the world needs to see concrete action, not just talk, to ward off the extreme effects of Climate Change. This is exactly what the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the conference in somewhat harsh terms: “Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.” The proposed Pact would see all countries ...

“CLIMATE CHANGE” CATALYST FOR CATASTHROPE!. BY Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” We are now well & truly into the 21st Century. 200 years ago,”Climate-Change”was a subject hardly spoken about. Our little planet Earth was already well INTO IT, but Plagues, World Wars,Conflicts & other such misfortunes were much more to the fore in the minds of Earthlings, than what was happening in Space, so to speak. Although THIS has been happening since God made the “big bang” actually occur, Adam was too busy looking for UNFORBIDDEN fruit, Eve was trying to avoid “the snake” who was “eying” her & Cain was still running around, looking for Abel in order to “put him down. CLIMATE-CHANGE WAS HAPPENING EVEN THEN. NOT AS NOTICEABLY, NOT AS RAPIDLY, PERHAPS BUT IT WAS HAPPENING, SINCE ADAM WAS A BOY. RIGHT NOW, WITH THE PASSING OF TIME, THE PLUSSES IN POLLUTANTS, PUERILE PRESIDENTS WHO “PASS” ...