Kevin Hester speaks to Lisa Er on Abrupt Climate Change and Surrounding Issues

Should we be more concerned about terrorists or climate change? What a question! Climate change can kill with efficacy as huge storms hit with frightening intensity and after the winds go, leave a legacy of flooding and landslides. More slowly, rising seas will gradually erase whole nations, and droughts will kill many thousands, and even cause wars over resources. Western governments, however, are making it clear which they think is the issue to worry about. Climate change is taking a back seat, even when there has been a cyclone (cyclone Haiyan) that killed 6300 people in 2013. However in early December 2015 the largest UN summit of the decade is to take place in Paris. The big question is will the delegates get the message to keep fossil fuel in the ground and to finance a transition to renewable energy by 2050? This is the aim of 350.org. Even that seems too little too late.