... as a result leading to an increase in planet temperatures. "We all know that the world faces a threat potentially more catastrophic than any other threat in human history: climate change and global warming" - Tolba 1991. The greatest element to this threat is the irreversibility of change once the forces are set in motion. The industrial revolution is barely 200 years old yet in that time we have altered a system millions of years old. Our over-reliance on combustion technologies, an inability to control the systems we have created, an unwillingness to implement environmentally benign policies, a deep-seated resistance to forgo current wealth for future safety and the shameful inertia at a political level all are contributors to the problem. Vested interests and their impact on the democratic process also cannot be discounted. Governments may be elected by the people but they often behave in a way which is anything but ...

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