How Climate Change affects Biodiversity.
More often than not, in fact 90% of the time, the reason why we are concerned about climate change is selfish and self-serving. We as human beings are concerned about us. How will climate change affect our lives, our livelihoods, our economies, our development, our security, food and otherwise. It’s all about us. Even in adaptation, we focus on, how we can save ourselves and the planet for our own benefit? The Congo rain forest - thousands of species call this place home Yet human beings are just one among the millions of species that call this planet home. These plants, animals, microbes do not have a voice and cannot participate in global debates that determine their welfare and survival. In burning fossil fuels, we are just thinking of ourselves, of how we can develop our lot and move forward as a species. We caused the current global warming without thinking about the rest of the planet’s inhabitants who incidentally form the majority. Now, how and what will cl...