Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre

[Iwillnevergiveup]

Editor Alan Rusbridger is stepping down, but not before launching a major series on climate change.

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"The climate threat features very prominently on the home page of the Guardian on Friday even though nothing exceptional happened on this day. It will be there again next week and the week after. You will, I hope, be reading a lot about our climate over the coming weeks.

One reason for this is personal. This summer I am stepping down after 20 years of editing the Guardian. Over Christmas I tried to anticipate whether I would have any regrets once I no longer had the leadership of this extraordinary agent of reporting, argument, investigation, questioning and advocacy.

Very few regrets, I thought, except this one: that we had not done justice to this huge, overshadowing, overwhelming issue of how climate change will probably, within the lifetime of our children, cause untold havoc and stress to our species.

So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian’s best resources to describe what is happening and what – if we do nothing – is almost certain to occur, a future that one distinguished scientist has termed as “incompatible with any reasonable characterisation of an organised, equitable and civilised global community”.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/06/climate-change-guardian-threat-to-earth-alan-rusbridger

[Fred Sanders]

1. Bookmark and get your real news from The Guardian, what the New York Times used to be - mostly sane and truthful.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Mr. Rusbridger will be sorely missed

Very big shoes to fill there. He was very supportive of Edward Snowden for one thing.
He's fairly young to write his memoirs and then fade away. It will be interesting to see what lies ahead for him.

[cilla4progress]

3. It seems our American congress

Are the only ones left who don't accept climate change as a reality. This is very dangerous for such a powerful group to deny a fact critical to our existence. Does it not put every single one of their positions into question and doubt, if they reveal themselves to be so out of touch with reality on something so obvious and important?

[4dsc]

4. Not only climate change but

lack of resources for future generation will come to haunt us. Too many people think we can live forever and that our current economic model is sustainable. Hang on because its going to be a bumpy ride.