CLIMATE CHANGE - WE REAP WHAT WE SOW: The human, environmental and economic costs of global warming are becoming increasingly visible. Destroying biodiversity could destroy us. "With our actions, we disrupt both the structure and functions of ecosystems and change local biodiversity. As a result of our activities, the wounds we open in natural life come back and affect us. We reap whatever we sow on our planet, where none of us is independent of one another," as one report has put it. So true. Meteorologists agree the unusually early heatwave in Europe is a sign of what’s to come as global warming continues, moving up in the calendar the temperatures that the continent would previously have seen only in July and August. From catastrophic flooding to hurricanes, droughts, and fires, the impacts of climate change are no longer a concern of the future, but rather a present reality that we must address now. [COMMENT BY: Stephen N.R., Senior Asociate Editor]
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