It is increasing difficult to convince our governments, particularly here in the US, that climate change is real and has reached crisis proportions, and deniers are gonna deny, but glaciologists believe the Birch Glacier collapsed because climate change began melting the permafrost that held the glacier in place. The glacier had shown been showing signs of collapse for several days – enough time to evacuate the town, though one person is missing and feared dead. Glaciologists believe that there will be an increasing number of these types of events.
We need to petition those in power to take action, but there is much we as individuals can do to limit climate change on our own. The most important and effective thing we can do is to stop eating animals, particularly beef and dairy, which is responsible for more greenhouse gases than all automobiles, truck, trains, planes and boats combined.