The silver lining on climate change: humans are paying attention

October 23, 2008 · Print This Article

At the moment it’s solid to get worked up about a disappearing species when your job just disappeared. That’s basically what the environmental movement has been about: getting humans worked up until they actually do something like donate, or recycle or research.

Russell Mittermeier of Conservation universal says lately more society and more sectors of the global economy are doing something about climate change, and they’ve done it despite economic challenges. He says that is the silver lining.

Conservation worldly is a U.S.-based research and activism organization that partners with everyone from Wal-Mart to your grandma. Mittermeier is the organization’s president, and while you’ve been thinking about how the stock market crash is affecting your retirement, he’s thinking about how

it can be leveraged to save forests.

Mettermeier is at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain. He says on the one hand you can look at the news on climate change, deforestation and species loss and throw up your arms, or you can note how many more society are concerned about these facts.

In an essay for the BBC, Mettermeier says he’s heartened to be a part of plans that will harness that interest into policy. For example, he says, humans like him want to include the conservation of tropical forests as part of the new Kyoto Protocol. The current one expires in 2012.

 

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