Environmental Change v Climate Change

What the scientists are missing is the fact that climate change is part of environmental change. Whereas whilst it has been understood that the earth evolves through natural climate cycles, mans activities have hastened the event by approximately only 2%. However our daily activities are having a far greater immediate affect upon our environment, outside of the meteorological changes; such as: waste management, dumping enormous amounts of rubbish into our seas affecting the marine life globally; into our rivers and lakes and also contaminating our soils which is all affecting our most precious resource Fresh Water. By the year 2030 the WEF estimates that we shall have a 40% deficit on available fresh water, if we continue at the same increase rate of usage and 'wastage', potentially creating conflict, strife and poverty beyond anything witnessed to date. Other Environmental changes that we are directly responsible for include; Urbanisation, swallowing good fertile lands, generating enormous additional power demands and resource needs; also Land Abandonment, caused by lack of investment into the rural areas generating the continuous temptation to farming families towards the urban lights and social benefits; this encourages inappropriate alternative uses of land. equally bad Urban Planning, continued building on flood plains and vulnerable coast lines and within seismic active regions. Then Agricultural change, including: o deforestation, cash crop replacements, zero crop rotation o over use of brackish water and nitrates, causing enormous land degradation and water resource contamination. o Plus the fact that in Asia 80% of freshwater goes for irrigation, where 40% fails to get to the plant. o use of ancient irrigations methods and infrastructure inappropriate to the needs of modern farming and water resource management

All of this is a far greater threat than climate change