Managing Partner of Saul D Humphrey LLP (Certified B Corporation™️)| Professor at Anglia Ruskin University | Chair of Institute of Directors (Norfolk) | Chair of Building Growth | Non Executive Director
2023 was the hottest year on record and 2024 is threatening to be hotter still. “In the US 🇺🇸 wildfires 🔥 destroyed more than 1.7 million acres in the first three months of 2024, already half of last year’s total, and forecasters expect an unprecedented number of Atlantic hurricanes 🌀 “Around 87 per cent of Americans say they have experienced at least one extreme weather event in the past five years — whether that’s drought, extreme heat, severe storms, wildfires or flooding. Three-quarters of adults believe the science that climate crisis is at least partly to blame, and the same percentage want the federal government to do something about it. “But when it comes to this year’s presidential election, the issue trails inflation, healthcare, immigration and jobs in the list of voter priorities.” Credit: Louise Boyle at The Independent (with apologies for too many adverts), see below 👇 🤔 What does it take make the climate crisis the priority? Do we need to witness Armageddon before we do what is necessary? #sustainabilityleadership SDG 13 https://lnkd.in/eiDSfpkE
Polls suggest people do care and are worried about climate change. But at the ballot box they often vote for what they perceive is in their immediate short term interest. We need to educate so people understand that the cost of living crisis, fuel poverty, health impacts, the refugee crisis etc etc are all going to be so much worse if we do not tackle the climate crisis. A green economy would support improvements to all of these areas and more. We need to educate people, including our politicians sadly, to see these connections.
Do people care, maybe in their head but not in actions. We are too far along as me, me ,me to really change. As a Race we’ll get what we deserve
It was very unfortunate that many including governments don't know how to approach the climate change issues. Because whatever happens around the world was mere an eyewash on this subject. The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere becomes the climate change controller. World has to carry a lot of homeworks on this matter.
There is no crisis other than the existential threat to those profiting and politicizing off this nonsense. The world is waking up to the manipulation and misinformation in the alarmist narrative.
False causality. That is the real problem. Exaggeration backfires.
Sorry, but real things happening always get priority against made up crisis, so there is nothing sensible that could bring the climate change crisis scam before the actual WWIII that we are quickly approaching in the list of priorities.
Unfortunately, it usually takes the start of a crisis to become an urgent priority. Saul Humphrey 🌍 Think the beginning of Covid!
you might like this fact so often while we worry about one thing when the less obvious owned by the same culprits are enjoying massive profits such as this item shared between fossil and EV cars / and yep the wearing surface is also produced by them smile Saul . In early 2020, UK-based independent testing firm Emissions Analytics published a study claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions
That which is viewed as local and now will always take precedence in people's minds over that which is seen as global and future. It's an evolutionary thing.
Why are you still preaching this nonsense? Atlantic hurricanes have happened throughout history. Some seasons are worse than others. It will always be so. Most forest fires are caused by lightning or stupid humans with matches. 75% of the plant is covered by oceans and we have little knowledge about what happens on the ocean’s floor or how it effects climate. Yet, you run to unfounded assumptions and incomplete models with faulty data the scream “climate change”. We know why, you want our tax dollars. Just stop.