If you follow the news carefully, as I do, you can see there is momentum growing, an accelaration in feedback mechanisms. It's a trend that is increasing from year to year - perhaps not in a straight line - but global change is definitely upon us.
The scary part is right now our species is so distracted, drugged and delusional, even if you hit our species over the head with a bat (and wrote was wrong with the world on the bat) they still wouldn't know what hit them. As such, intelligent communities (blogs, suburbanites, farmers, students etc) that have any sense, any conscience out to begin to take hands now. What are we waiting for? A leader? A government? The USA to make an announcement? It's not gonna happen, and even if it does, we're running out of time.
We need to start changing our lifestyles spontaneously - today, now. How we consume, what we do. We need as many of us to become something new: no longer consumers, or users - but conservers, protectors, caring communities that value meaning and our connection to the environment and each other.
"The ongoing trend of worldwide and rapid, if not accelerating, glacier shrinkage on the century time scale is most likely to be of a non-periodic nature, and may lead to the deglaciation of large parts of many mountain ranges by the end of the 21st century," the report warned.
The report said that glaciers lost on average a mass of more than half a metre water equivalent in the period 1996-2005, which is twice the ice loss of the previous decade (1986-95) and over four times the rate of the period 1976-85.
The UNEP report comes shortly after scientists warned that they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet, which could see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas.
"Otherwise, and like the glaciers, our room for manoeuvre and the opportunity to act may simply melt away," Steiner warned.
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