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bust worldwide. How can politicians not see that?

By 2050, we can expect another 2 billion souls on this world. Where are they in the plans for future climate change? Climate Change models do not account for people, only land and they are only as predictable as the data put in and cannot foresee the future with certainty. Working off models will give a false sense of security and when they go wrong will give sceptics a chance to trash the models leading to more uncertainty. There is a moral imperative here that politicians are failing to address; they have put their faith in industry and technology; a business as usual model, which will be unanswerable to their countries and people around them. Yes, economies have to grow, businesses have to be successful, and people have to work, but each of them can adapt in whatever way to Climate Change, or more people will die in vain.

We need to adapt and get away from twentieth century models of linking Climate Change to economics, politics and industry. It's about people. The Earth, its land and seas will survive, but it is the life on this world that is in danger. And the way we are still arguing over carbon trading and treaties and cost benefits and data models, we might as well be talking ourselves into extinction.

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