Oct 10, 2018 02:38 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45745242
EXCERPT: Young people's love of fast fashion is coming under the scrutiny of Britain's law-makers. MPs say the fashion industry is a major source of the greenhouse gases that are overheating the planet. Discarded clothes are also piling up in landfill sites and fibre fragments are flowing into the sea when clothes are washed. The retailers admit more needs to be done, but say they are already working to reduce the impact of their products....
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Vietnam's children and the fear of climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45738136
EXCERPT: One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary school in Can Tho province, a region of Vietnam that is regularly swamped.
They live in the Mekong Delta, a huge plain of rivers and rice-fields that's popular with tourists but lies only just above the surface of the ocean. The land itself is sinking and, at the same time, the level of the sea is rising, as global warming causes the water to expand and the ice caps to melt. That's why the delta, one of the world's greatest centres for rice production and home to 18 million people, is recognised as especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
[...] To add to the stress, seawater pushing inland poisons the soil with salt, either reducing yields of rice or making it impossible to grow this vital part of the food supply. Many farmers are turning to other crops like hay, which is more tolerant of salt, or shrimp which can cope with more of it, all of which reduces the volume of rice produced. A leading farming expert even warned that the days of rice may be over for the Mekong Delta, with huge implications for food security and national income.
[...] This is why Vietnam, along with several dozen other developing countries, argues that the main target of the Paris Agreement on climate change - to limit the rise in global average temperature to 2C above the pre-industrial level - does not go far enough. It is pressing for a lower target of 1.5C.
[...] Florence Halstead, is exploring the social implications, particularly for a generation that will grow up having to face more threatening conditions. She described some of the children's pictures as "harrowing" but said it was important to prepare them for what lies ahead....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45738136
EXCERPT: Young people's love of fast fashion is coming under the scrutiny of Britain's law-makers. MPs say the fashion industry is a major source of the greenhouse gases that are overheating the planet. Discarded clothes are also piling up in landfill sites and fibre fragments are flowing into the sea when clothes are washed. The retailers admit more needs to be done, but say they are already working to reduce the impact of their products....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45745242
Vietnam's children and the fear of climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45738136
EXCERPT: One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary school in Can Tho province, a region of Vietnam that is regularly swamped.
They live in the Mekong Delta, a huge plain of rivers and rice-fields that's popular with tourists but lies only just above the surface of the ocean. The land itself is sinking and, at the same time, the level of the sea is rising, as global warming causes the water to expand and the ice caps to melt. That's why the delta, one of the world's greatest centres for rice production and home to 18 million people, is recognised as especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
[...] To add to the stress, seawater pushing inland poisons the soil with salt, either reducing yields of rice or making it impossible to grow this vital part of the food supply. Many farmers are turning to other crops like hay, which is more tolerant of salt, or shrimp which can cope with more of it, all of which reduces the volume of rice produced. A leading farming expert even warned that the days of rice may be over for the Mekong Delta, with huge implications for food security and national income.
[...] This is why Vietnam, along with several dozen other developing countries, argues that the main target of the Paris Agreement on climate change - to limit the rise in global average temperature to 2C above the pre-industrial level - does not go far enough. It is pressing for a lower target of 1.5C.
[...] Florence Halstead, is exploring the social implications, particularly for a generation that will grow up having to face more threatening conditions. She described some of the children's pictures as "harrowing" but said it was important to prepare them for what lies ahead....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45738136