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Yesterday I saw this video made by the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) drawing attention to the 3 times greater global warming in Mongolia during the past 70 years compared to the rest of the world, rising more than 2 degC, more than about 10 degF, which is having the effect of devastating the livelihoods of its nomadic people who have as a result lost so many of their animals from drastically changed weather patterns, when they have had to vacate the Steppe for cities like Ulan Bator where levels of air pollution have soared to the detriment of particularly the country's young children.

The UN General Assembly has drawn attention to the matter but what hope is there for these poor people and many many others in other parts of the world when there is insufficient unified action on the part of world leaders, begging the question of whether the world indeed has ANY Leaders?

Unfortunately there is not a remedy on the horizon to stem this development, maybe in the future concerted action will be mounted but there are very few hopeful signs, where personal greed and amassing ever greater personal wealth, appear much more potent ambitions for that small percentage of people who control the world's economies..?

Take for example the fracking proposed by the UK government which only yesterday I was reading in the UK press was likely to release the same amount of gas emissions as almost 300 million new cars, fatally undermining ministers’ obligation to tackle the escalating climate crisis, according to new research: analysis by the Labour party showing the amount of CO₂ released into the atmosphere, if the government’s plans go ahead, would be the same as the lifetime emissions of 280 million cars, or the equivalent of 29 new coal-fired power plants. All of which contrast sharply with the data the fracking industry puts out on the internet, claiming their industry is more not less environment friendly..!?

Over the weekend just gone I was also reading perhaps on Twitter how the oil companies are spending enormous sums of money to deny the effects of burning oil and its disastrous effects on climate change, which reminded me of the way the tobacco industry some years ago for such a long time denied any connection between smoking cigarettes and contracting lung cancer, a cancer which usually ends in premature death..?

To my simple mind it is no coincidence that England’s richest man is a Fracker, nor is it difficult for me to accept that the USA and Britain in 2003 went to war in Iraq chiefly to get their hands on its oil reserves..?

In each of these cases the pursuit of ever greater wealth the driving force, as I have some time ago concluded it’s being behind the right-wingers in the British government hell-bent on exiting the EU, and high jacking democracy as a by-product..?

So let’s go forward 25 years to the next generation and try to guess their success at reining in these excesses by the few and powerful, and ask how for example Mr Trumps’ children or grandchildren will think how nice it is to have a new $6billion wall as a memorial between the US and Mexico, whilst at the same time they have to walk everywhere, instead of driving by automobile, because world temperature have risen too high, and are playing havoc with standards of living also in the US, the 59^th second of the 59^th minute of the last hour of the day in which to act to save the planet from human extinction?

I personally have not done a lot to stem the tide of global warming, I try not to use plastic bags wherever possible and I have begun some years ago to drive the 2^nd of 2 cars I have had in my possession these past 30 years less and less, preferring to walk to the shops each day for my essential food items, etc… Have a good day everyone and please don’t have your children and/or grandchildren remember you like Mr Trump’s: a guy in a position to do something positive about the world’s problems but who instead was more focussed on building walls between people whilst amassing a greater fortune in worthless paper money..?