Yesterday, I snuck up to the Commonwealth Club in SF to hear a panel review the UN’s new report on Human Development and Global Warming.
The speakers were:
LARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org
NANCY PFUND, Managing Director Bay Area Equity Fund, JP Morgan
ANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill
AD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate
The Gist:
While most of the CO2 is coming from the world’s richest countries, the poorest countries will take the brunt of climate change. Most of the world’s poor live day to day and cannot survive the climate changes that are attributed to global warming. While too much rain is flooding fields in South East Asia, drought is hitting Northern Africa. The result is the same – crops are failing, and people who live on the edge are being pushed over it. Examples of the effects of global warming can be seen on videos at the UN website.
The speakers were:
LARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org
NANCY PFUND, Managing Director Bay Area Equity Fund, JP Morgan
ANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill
AD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate
The Gist:
While most of the CO2 is coming from the world’s richest countries, the poorest countries will take the brunt of climate change. Most of the world’s poor live day to day and cannot survive the climate changes that are attributed to global warming. While too much rain is flooding fields in South East Asia, drought is hitting Northern Africa. The result is the same – crops are failing, and people who live on the edge are being pushed over it. Examples of the effects of global warming can be seen on videos at the UN website.
Long before we have to worry about damage to our beach houses, hundreds of millions of people will die or displaced. What moral obligations and enlightened self-interest does the West have in addressing global warming now, even though the effects are far off for us?
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