For the last 2 years, a system using vast sunshades has been developed in Australia as a way to protect the coral reefs from the global warming ( project described in this article ). Meanwhile, Australia is one of the 2 developed countries with USA which didn’t ratify the Kyoto protocol, the world project to fight against global warming …!
This symbolizes the temptation of the humans to solve the serious environmental problems they created with new technologies before changing their behaviours which are the sources of the problems. Well, what do motivate the Australians to do so ? According to the article, they are worrying about the potential decrease of the tourism business. This is the key to improve the protection of the environment : the lure of money, or even better, the threat to loose something. Nothing better ? So let’s use it !
Didier – World citizen
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