We better keep watch on the coastline : Down Yonder : Marco News
[ol' woman] Your kids and your grandchillins is gonna be here, and if the climate changes like most of the scientists think it will, they’s gonna have a heckuva mess on their hands if we don’t — right now — stop burnin’ so much fossil fuels and puttin’ too much of that carbon dioxide up in the atmosphere. We’ve pumped so much extra carbon dioxide into the air over the past 100 years that our natural system can’t absorb it all and it’s about to turn the planet into one big greenhouse and it don’t function very well that way.”
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“Exactly right,” said the ol’ woman. “If I add more ice, the glass will overflow and if too much ice that’s now on land melts into the seas, the seas will overflow and you’ll be sitting here in a SCUBA suit.”
“Okay, so what?” asked the ol’ man. “I’ll just buy beachfront property in Sebring.”
“That ain’t the point, either,” said the ol’ woman. “Climate change could lead to all kinds of disasters around the world. Oxfam, a bunch that knows sumpthin’ ‘bout disasters, says there could be as many as 400 million people sufferin’ from natural disasters – all climate related – by 2015.”
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