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Around a third of those polled by NESTA thought time to find a solution to the problem of climate change is running out, with almost half claiming individual action is not enough and that fresh thinking on the issue is required.
The research further suggests as many as 17 million people in Britain would be willing to work with others to combat global warming, with two-thirds believing it is everybody’s responsibility to take action. Charities (42%) and scientists (28%) were the groups rated most highly for their current efforts to tackle climate change.
* A representative sample of 1,972 GB adults (aged 18+) was surveyed online by YouGov between 5th and 8th October 2007.
**Population calculation based on 36% of 47,255,880 GB adults (Source: ONS ‘Population Trends, Autumn 2007’).
The capacity of people to work against climate change is astonishing.
I have just been running a project in Middlesbrough in which at the drop of a hat, almost 1000 people decided they wanted to produce food locally to begin to improve the carbon footprint of their community.
There are similar sparks being struck elsewhere in the U.K., for instance.
But someone somewhere needs to pick all of the activity up and see it as a local movement to change that means something in its totality.
More on Middlesbrough Urban Farming at
http://www.dott07.com/go/food
We have a new and vibrant approach to battling the huge challenges facing the planet - we relaunched our charity into a natioanl organizationw itha global vision to promote harmony and citizenship to today’s troubled yought through educational workshops AND we want to battle climate change too with our fnatastic offsetting progreamme which will conserve nearly 10 million hectares of virgin Amazon rain forest in Loreto, Peru
We have a new and vibrant approach to battling the huge challenges facing the planet - we relaunched our charity as a national organization with a global vision to promote harmony and citizenship to today’s troubled youth through educational workshops AND we want to battle climate change too with our fantastic carbon emissions offsetting progreamme which will conserve nearly 10 million hectares of virgin Amazon rain forest in Loreto, Peru - currently 250,000 hectares of rain forest is slashed and burnt each year in Peru and we want to fund a programme that educates the indigenous people not to do that and to be deployed into other sustainable employment whilst reforesting depleted areas of the forest. 7% of the earth’s surface is precious rain forest, which after the oceans, is the second most effective carbon sink and our best weapon against climate change. We have to to conserve and protect not only the forest but the unique bio-diversity that it sustains as well. We have to protect the rain forests against the advances of cattle ranches, soya plantations and unlicensed logging.