Climate Change
Paul: So have you seen all thesefreakish weather events on the
news all around the world?
Amy: Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to pay attention, yeah. It's been pretty
bad in some places. I think, it's been the wettest January on record in the UK
at the moment.
Paul: Right, right, right. So do you think it's kind of indicative of climate change? Are
you a climate change believer or a climate change denier?
Amy: I think it's hard to deny really. I think what humans do to the planet is going to have some
effect and science is science, you know. It's backed up by evidence and facts and scientists don't tend to say things
until they know it's true or as true as it can be. So yeah, I'm definitely a
believer in climate change, I think. We are affecting things on the planet.
How about you?
Paul: I've read quite a lot about it. And yes, there is a science to
support it but there's also a lot of science to — not to deny it but there's
definitely a lot of questions that aren't answered yet. It's a very sort of complex issue. I mean,
these global systems of weather and you've got all these like organic processes
going on that we just don't really understand. And then trying to explain all
these complex events by saying it's climate change, it's…
I mean, what worries me
is that by denying it, it seems to also be a sort of justification for us to
continue living the way we are, which worries me a lot. Whether it's true or
not, I think we need to be thinking about how we can live better. And that
means, living in ways that are less, sort of, damaging on our environment.
Amy: Yeah, I agree. I agree. I've also read a bit about weather
systems that are perhaps not—because of climate of change, every planet has
weather systems that come and go. And I understand that part but I also fully
agree that we have to stop being so destructive.
I think it's pretty
clear. You can't continue cutting downacres and acres and acres of
really valuable resources like the rainforest. I mean, we need that to breathe,
so it just doesn't make sense. Yeah, I think we definitely have to stop being
so destructive.
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