Will climate emergency jolt us out of stupor?

"Profoundly troubling signs from human activities", including but not limited to growing livestock populations, global tree cover loss and higher carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. These are the main causes of global warming and, possibly, the resulting weird weather patterns such as increasingly hot summers, widespread wildfires, rising numbers of cyclones, incessant rains and floods, extremely cold winters, and high incidences of droughts and desertification.

Climate change is a reality, despite some skeptics' claim to the contrary. And living in denial is not going to help any living creature.

In fact, this denial and the resultant business as usual have intensified climate change. The celebration, albeit muted, over the unprecedented pace of melting ice in the Arctic (and the Antarctic) in the hope of cashing in on the opening up of new sea and therefore trade routes and exploiting the natural resources, especially oil and gas, in the region points to a disturbing trend.