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Primer on Climate change, Global warming and other related matters

The wildfire burning in California, USA, heat waves in Delhi, India, diminishing biodiversity in Upper Guinea and land loss due to sea levels rise in the Caribbean. Climate change and global warming are no longer esoteric concepts. Their effects have immediacy in our daily lives. We constantly check the weather reports.  Build on highlands. A country moved its entire capital to avoid the consequences of climate change. The insurance industry coopts climate models and reports in assessing premiums.  You have to be under the proverbial rock to not have come across one climate-related issue or weather reports of flooding or drought. Whatever reports you have read relating to climate change; brace yourself more will be coming. We are not making as many changes as required to stem the ugly way nature is been treated. Many still treat climate crises as something that can wait. A secondary inconvenience. The business of humans first. The truth is as humans have moved at a breakneck p