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1000 people dead or missing, presumed dead in the Philippines plus about 150 000 people who've lost their homes, of whom many have had their farmland and rice fields not so much flooded as washed away completely.
Illegal logging is being treated as the immediate cause of the landslides and increased rainfall over the last few years (attributed to global warming) has probably also contributed. Now the point of this short rant is that illegal logging is a simple problem when compared to the complex and not-very-understood mechanics of climate change, right? Therefore theoretically easier to tackle, right? And yet even so the Philippines needs a disaster like this to even bring in a temporary ban on logging (the government "refuses to comment" on a permanent ban, which probably translates as "no").
Moral: kind of suggests it might be a while before the species decides to do anything about climate change, doesn't it? And that's "anything" in the sense of well, *anything* since even if it's just weather on a geological timescale and nothing to do with carbon emissions there's still a hell of a lot of adapting to be done. Just ask the (soon-to-be-ex) nation of Tuvalu. Or anyone who lives on the flood-plains of SE England, for that matter.
Illegal logging is being treated as the immediate cause of the landslides and increased rainfall over the last few years (attributed to global warming) has probably also contributed. Now the point of this short rant is that illegal logging is a simple problem when compared to the complex and not-very-understood mechanics of climate change, right? Therefore theoretically easier to tackle, right? And yet even so the Philippines needs a disaster like this to even bring in a temporary ban on logging (the government "refuses to comment" on a permanent ban, which probably translates as "no").
Moral: kind of suggests it might be a while before the species decides to do anything about climate change, doesn't it? And that's "anything" in the sense of well, *anything* since even if it's just weather on a geological timescale and nothing to do with carbon emissions there's still a hell of a lot of adapting to be done. Just ask the (soon-to-be-ex) nation of Tuvalu. Or anyone who lives on the flood-plains of SE England, for that matter.
