ABSTRACT

This chapter starts with a brief epigraph from Prince Charles. For over four decades, he has been both a tireless champion for sustainability and one of the first major world leaders to accept the science advocating for urgent change. Conflict and violence are no longer the main causes of people leaving their homes and homelands. In 2018, the International Organization for Migration found that over 60 percent of all forced migration occurred because of natural disasters. Climate change confronts us with our most urgent and greatest challenges today. It threatens nonhuman species with extinction. Climate change is about our altering and endangered planet in the broadest sense. This includes the melting ice and rising seas, but varying and more extreme weather patterns, increase in droughts and wildfires and the spread of diseases to new areas. The author of this book challenges the orthodox consensus that climate change is a problem that can be solved once and for all.