The issue of the triage of patients for access to intensive care and medically necessary surgery has now become very real. Between two patients suffering from equally urgent conditions, which
Point of no return
There needs to be a shift in the way we analyse global warming and think about climate change
January 18, 2021
Year 2020, tying in with 2016, has been the hottest year on record with the Earth’s average temperature increase being 1.02 degrees Celsius above the baseline pre-industrial temperatures a number that is currently accelerating by 0.2 degrees every decade. But what environmentalists are most fearful of is that despite the slowdown in economic activity owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and despite witnessing one of the strongest La Nina a cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern event, the global temperature spike is consistent with an upward trend. This means that we are rapidly heading towards the point of no return.