Climate Change

I was watching the ABC’s Four Corners last night.  It was all about climate change and the devastating effects it is having worldwide.  One of the effects spoken about is how weather systems are now sitting over areas for extended periods of time.  Hence, we are seeing floods and fires like never before.
They were saying that mankind will end up with millions of environmental refuges and that places will just need to be abandoned.  It is already happening in India due to saltwater spoiling cropping land.  I was only thinking on the day I saw Four Corners that a place in Australia will possibly need to be abandoned due to constant flooding.  To me governments will perhaps decide enough is enough after pouring so much into things with no apparent change.
This is one thing I really seem to see evidence of.  Media Watch directly after Four Corners covered a topic I do not agree with, though the implication was to believe otherwise was evidence of just having my head buried in the sand.
But it was the climate change thing that got me thinking.  It is just by the by, but it seems to me mankind faces a real dilemma.  We are asking third world countries to show restraint we in the first world never did.  It is like we milked the situation for all it was worth, but others should pay for our mistakes.
But as I say that is by the by.  Something that came across that I whole heartedly agree with was the sense of urgency.  A chief meteorologist was saying our time is short for doing something.  I do agree our time is short.  What I am seeing is devastation on an unprecedented (there is that word again) scale.  
It really feels like climate change is a “reap what you sow” thing.  Mankind has not been a good steward and I am seeing the results.  I totally think I need to do what I can to turn things around. 
Yet it is the conclusions reached I have trouble with.  The hard sell at the moment seems to be that if we can fix this problem our problems are solved.  Yet I cannot agree with that.  To me climate change is not destroying the world.  Mankind is.
I agree time is short but for different reasons than those espoused.  There are things happening that to me can by a stretch be indirectly related to climate change.  Like pandemics (I was surprised but not surprised to hear there had been an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in NSW.) 
But earthquakes I do have problems with.  Though I did see in the US fracking is causing earthquakes where they have not been before.  But the clincher for me is what will happen in the sky.  I have not seen much yet, but it is coming to a place near me.  A lot is frightening right now, and that will be another one.
As Simon and Garfunkel sang “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”  To me it is a case of seeing.  I draw the conclusions I want to draw.  Something is true.