Following
years of denial since its discovery, climate change is finally being accepted
as a certainty and global threat to humanity, requiring immediate action.
The threat is not however that of extinction. We have survived and
surpassed all expectation by overcoming previous disasters and will
continue to dominate the Earth. The threat surrounds a loss of wealth of life.
Since 01 September 2016 - 10 October 2016 approximately 1.5 million people have been displaced by natural disasters globally (IDMC, 2016) |