President has chance to show leadership on green energy clamour

This is not a doomsday warning, but the last five years have been the hottest on record on our little planet. CO2 emissions have reached an all time high. David Attenborough said this week at the Global Conference on Climate Action in Katowice, Poland, that climate change is humanity’s greatest threat in a thousand years and if not contained will lead to the collapse of civilisations and much of the natural world. Pope Francis has consistently insisted that ‘climate change is real and the result of human activity.’ 

Climate change is already a matter of life and death and it is the poor who suffer most from the changes. If you doubt just watch the world news and count the number of items concerning drought, hurricanes, bush fires, tsunamis, tornados and flooding. We are living in a unique moment in time as the World Bank boss said this week as the last generation to stop climate change and the first generation to live with it consequences.