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The State of our Environment.
Moving around our environment over the holiday break, I have noticed a reasonably high level of concern by many about the state of our climate. No longer is the subject taboo or ridiculed.
More and more people are beginning to think that climate change is something that may have a profound impact during their lifetime. There is still a lot of confusion about the reality of climate change and global warming in as far as how it will impact on human life and the time schedules for this, but few are unaware of the problems facing us through an increase in storm severity and the current lack of water throughout most of the country.
For the first time in history Australia is considering using recycled, treated water for drinking purposes. We in Australia are the only developed country in the world that does not use recycled water for drinking. We store more water per head than anyone else, and use more water per person than any other country in the world, and all of this water is pure and previously unused. On top of this high water use comes the information that Carbon Dioxide levels are reaching the highest they have ever been over the last 400,000 years and that we in Australia are now the biggest greenhouse gas producers of the world, beating the U.S for this dubious honour.
Isn't it time we started to catch up to the reality of the world we live in and started to take the climate we live in a lot more seriously than we usually do, isn't it time we started demanding of our politicians proofs that their claims of action and their "solutions" to the problems of our environmental future are actually real, probably it is time we started as individuals to make our own real difference for the future. If we continue to wait and believe the "greenwashing" of business and our politicians, we will not change our behaviour and will continue to be seen throughout the world as immature, wasteful and arrogant in regards to the environment we live in.
The best place to start a change for the better is your home. Make positive change at home, reduce the water you use, reduce the use of air-conditioning and heating, reduce your consumption of products that contribute to global warming and environmental pollution, and start demanding of business environmentally sound goods and of your political representatives some real change for the better. In some regard progress has come a long way, but in the wrong direction; it is time to make a change for a better future because we are going to be in it during our lifetimes.
Daryl Reeves January 2007.
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