KCW Concerns About climate change

Our members voices

“My greatest fear about climate change is the fact that we are not addressing it fast enough to prevent catastrophic tipping points from unraveling. I think of the impacts the climate crisis will have on our civilizations around the world and the consequential extermination of so many species, both flora and fauna. I fear for my grandchildren who will inherit the onslaught of climate change and the degraded world we left to them. It causes me great shame.”

Chet Hunt, Knox Climate Watch Past-President and Retired Urban Planner

“I am most concerned that the measured CO2 concentration of the Earth’s atmosphere has more than doubled since the onset of the industrial revolution 200 years ago, and that there is no precedent in the geological record for such a rapid increase. As a potent greenhouse gas the impacts on climate of this rapidly increased CO2 are significant, directly observable, and potentially catastrophic projected into the future. If we don’t reduce carbon input, what planet will we leave our children and grandchildren?”

Steve Driese, Chair of Knox Climate Watch and Emeritus Professor of Geology, Baylor University

“Precipitous change in atmosphere.

Bruce Glanville, KCW Member and Home Performance Evaluator

"I am most concerned as a parent that our children and grandchildren are inheriting a world that will be harsher and more difficult for them to navigate in future decades. They will not be able to take for granted simple things like clean air and abundant drinking water. As a farmer's wife helping to preserve a family farm, I am concerned that we are not caring enough for our natural resources like agricultural land and forests that safeguard our ability to grow our own food and sequester carbon."

Anne Brock-Rankin, KCW Member, The Real Estate Firm and The Solar Alliance

“My greatest concern about Climate Change is the needless human suffering and death that is occurring and likely will expand exponentially before we transition to a clean energy future. I also am concerned about the great economic burden from higher energy, food, utility, medical, and storm damage costs for individuals. We have the technology, and now profitable economics (unknown to many), to rapidly electrify and move to renewables; but established energy sources continue to impede progress.”

Ken Wilson – KCW Member and Retired Residential Energy Efficiency and Geothermal Heat Pump HVAC Industrial Agriculture Climate Control and Automation

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