So when this rapid melting of the polar ice caps reaches it's foregone conclusion and large parts of New York London and Venice are underwater, the Maldives and New Orleans have disappeared altogether and the available land mass for habitation has shrunk, while the population to fill that land mass grows at it's present rate.
What will we do then?
When the rains continue to fail in India, and in Australia, and the deserts of Africa grow ever larger at the rate of 5 or more miles a year.
What will we do then?
When the present fuel reserves run out and we depend on other means to generate electricity what will we fly round the world in then, your average jumbo jet won't get off the ground on battery power.
What will we do then?
When all these wonderful ideas about new means of locomotion, and cheap means of x y or z don't grow enough food on the shrinking and impoverished soil, that is the bits that are not covered by people and their houses.
What will we do then?
It's not that bad yet, but it's getting closer and at an increasing speed, and when it eventually bites home, countries that are ignoring it now will start to panic.
I feel sad for my grandson and what he will have to face when he grows up in this greedy selfish world!
Giok