Sentences with phrase «what inaction on climate change»

«He talked about how irresponsible it would be to leave our children to pay our debts - but that's exactly what inaction on climate change is doing.

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If we were able to statistically model societal inaction on climate change, what proportion of the variance would be accounted for by the disinformation efforts of skeptics and false balance by journalists?

What has been largely missing is a high - level appeal for action on global climate disruption that also emphasizes the risks of inaction and is couched in the science of climate change.

Given that the United States and most other developed anions have for over twenty - five years failed to adequately respond to climate change because of alleged unacceptable costs to each nation and that due to the delay ghg emissions reductions now needed to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change are much steeper and costly than what would be required if these nations acted twenty five years ago, is it just for the United States and other developed nations to now defend further inaction on climate change on the basis of cost to it?

A quarter century on, what gets lost in the dichotomy between climate change believers and deniers is that inaction and avoidance in our daily lives are forms of denial, too.