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Sir,
Regarding 'Threat of failure looms as Bali talks enter key phase':
Other than the fact that the Bali summit provided nothing more than an agreement to hold further climate talks (and that is all that it was), it provided absolutely no progress towards stopping constantly increasing global pollution and the life-threatening build up of carbon dioxide.
The issue of climate change coupled with the world's emerging and dire problems is immense. Such problems includes population explosion and its sustainability, famine and food shortage, energy resource depletion and increased energy demands, cyclic pandemics, global pollution, carbon dioxide saturation and dwindling water shortages.
Indeed, together, this is a recipe of nightmarish proportions that has never been seen before by humankind. But the greatest threat to human stability is the fact that people in high places do not realise that the time span for solving these huge global problems is finite.
The writing is now on the wall for all to see. If they will only look, they will see that humanity has to react without delay in an area where reacting to global problems takes decades to solve. Therefore, the lead time that we now have is the only thing that we have in our favour. Leave it for another 20 years and we shall not have the necessary lead time to do anything about the really 'big' problems.
This is what we really have to get over to our leaders, politicians and multinational industrialists, for it will affect them as much as it will affect you and me. Indeed, if they do not quickly change their self-preservation and vested interest thinking, we shall all end up with problems that are simply unsolvable due to the time-driven requirement to solve them and where time will literally run out on us all.
It is only by people in high places realising our dilemmas quickly that we will now be able to confront them in enough time to solve them. It is thus no use waiting until it is too late.
Hesitancy and delay is the greatest threat to the survival of humankind. If we do not come to our senses quickly, in fifty years' time, the world will have become very similar to the worst-case scenario that we can all picture in our minds.
Dr David Hill
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