Climate change is not about saving the planet, it’s about saving human beings from an ugly, difficult future

By 2050, the world is projected to have some nine billion mouths to feed in a potentially much warmer world, with prolonged heat waves, drought, grave water shortages, rising sea levels threatening many of the world’s major cities, the risk of new diseases and much reduced biodiversity and damaged ecosystems.

By acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and moving to a low-carbon world, we are trying to lower the great risks our children, grandchildren and generations beyond could face. This is what the climate change challenge is all about. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

January 16, 2017

TORONTO—Margaret Wente writes an intelligent and often provocative column in The Globe and Mail and I enjoy reading it, even when I don’t agree, as sometimes happens, with her premises or conclusions. But I got irked the other day, though I don’t mean to single out Wente because many...

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