Driving Straight Into Catastrophe

By Julio Godoy - Interpress Service

PARIS, Jan 24, 2011 (IPS) - Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent.                                                                                   (AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)
According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions.