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Global Warming needs to be tackled, but I'm worried that too many people are placing too high an emphasis on it and forgetting the issues that are killing people right now: unemployment, poverty, war, healthcare, famine, poor education, crime, urban decline, et al.
It's an easy-out for politicians and business, who get to look good on a global scale through their posturing. Like I said, things need to be done, but a lot of other things need tackling first. Unfortunately, while it's relatively easy to get big business to adopt greener practices, to get the middle-classes to be more responsible with their rubbish disposal, etc. Issues like poverty, crime, healthcare and education call for more difficult, and far less glamorous, solutions.
People will rightly say that if the predictions relating to climate change are right, then we won't have a planet to save from poverty, etc, in the first place. But these are at the end of the day predictions, while deaths are actually occuring now as a result of the other issues.
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