One of these days, I'm going to figure out a way to talk about "global change," not just climate change. You know, because it's such a catchy term that rolls off the tongue. Sarcasm aside, to lots of smart people, "global change" is where the serious action is at. Right now. As Jonathan Foley wrote two years ago in Yale Environment 360:
I worry about this collective fixation on global warming as the mother of all environmental problems. Learning from the research my colleagues and I have done over the past decade, I fear we are neglecting another, equally inconvenient truth: that we now face a global crisis in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization.
Of course, you can't just dwell on impending ecological ruin any more than you can dwell on imminent climate doom. It's a bummer. And like melting ...
