A cost of climate change that can’t be counted in dollars – survival

First, some degree of human-induced climate change has very likely already occurred. Second, more warming is in the pipeline from recent greenhouse gas emissions whose climatic effects have not yet been fully realised.

Yet the world community has not really understood the full biological and ecological import of this remarkable human-induced environmental change.

The UK Stern report highlighted the long-term risks from unabated climate change to our economic system. Awareness of the risks to species survival, ecological systems and human health should draw our attention to the more serious, fundamental prospect of damage to the world’s life-support system.
Sydney Morning Herald