Two recent stories from opposite sides of the Arctic circle demonstrate that climate changes is not only happening right now with devastating effects, but that we – human beings – are making it worse, not better.
One is about the village of Kivalina, a tiny hamlet that is disappearing as the ocean rises – an affect of climate change.
The Alaskan village set to disappear under water in a decade
The other is about a new, high-tech giant machine developed in Norway to extract more gas from a field once thought exhausted.
Giant gas platform sinks below waves
Both stories were reported, without irony, by the BBC.
I blogged about the irony today in “While Arctic village disappears, more supplies of fossil fuels are found”
The dilemma is: should we be spending valuable resources searching for ways to produce more of a substance that ultimately might kill millions of humans – if not all of us?
Or should we focus on developing more renewable energy sources instead?
It’s a difficult dilemma, with no easy answers. What do you think?