The speed at which the financial and economic crisis has happened is mind-boggling. That the origins of the crisis is pure greed is no longer a secret. However, the bigger and the more devastating fall out if greed would be a climate crisis. Unfortunately, the speed of that would be even more mind-boggling. Don’t want to sound like a doomsayer (and would want to be proved wrong) but hopefully some governments would put their act together.
We are already talking about climate refugees. Maldives has become the first country in the world to use the term. The highest point of Maldives is 2.5 mtrs high, while the average is just 1 metre. A small rise in the sea level and wipe out the beautiful island of Maldives.