More figures, this time from the World Meteorological Organisation, indicating that the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continues to spiral upward.
What is it going to take to wake people up to this growing environmental catastrophe?
Human beings have the capacity to learn, reason and act accordingly, so why are we failing to do so?
Groups like Extinction Rebellion have raised the environment up the agenda but the politicians continue to not act. There is much hot air spouted but the actions on the ground simply do not match the rhetoric.
There has been a failure of political leadership. The American president is a climate change denier, while in this country, the government seeks to just export our emissions elsewhere.
There needs to be urgent action taken. The Labour Party's green deal offers the type of bold approach needed. Other parties have some similar ideas.
The ongoing collective heads in the sand approach to this crisis will in the end see a violent reaction from nature - something that will strike uniformly across the world hitting rich and poor alike. It really would be better to take radical action now in order to avoid what is becoming, with each passing day, an inevitable humanitarian crisis.
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