The Dangers Of Climate Change Disruption

Climate change disruption is bound to occur because almost all aspects of our lives are impacted by rapid changes in the climate. Rising greenhouse gases, for example, are heating the globe at a rate scientists estimate is faster than has ever occurred in the geological record. This will lead to record-breaking extremes of weather that will be more intense than have been seen before.

In the last three years for instance, severe hurricanes, heatwaves and fires have impacted millions of people around the world. Disruption is so dangerous because it is so hard to predict, has high scale impacts and its impacts cannot be reversed.

Sometimes people say that disruption is has advantages because it provides opportunities for change that would otherwise not be possible, such as being a public health opportunity. While justifying climate change because it has positive outcomes in other sectors is tempting, the impacts that need to be endured in the meantime are hugely negative.