Climate Change
Climate change means small, imperceptible changes as well as massive global catastrophes. Climate change also means natural patterns that our planet cycles through, as well as being the consequence of our own behaviour and industrial pollution. Today the world may feel much the same as it did yesterday, but all across our fragile world there are signs that things are changing. Huge chunks of polar ice breaking off and drifting into warmer waters to become an ever rising ocean, climatic shifts in weather, bringing drought to areas of farmland and flooding to areas of civilisation.
It is impossible to ignore the increasing number of news stories relating to freak weather, never-before-witnessed storms, flooding and life-threatening winds. To what extent we are responsible for this, or at least responsible for accelerating the process of change, is impossible to say. We are still new to this planet, and still learning our place and our responsibilities. Whether we survive long enough to learn from our experience is something only time will tell.