According to Bill McKibben long time activist on Climate Change Hurricane Sandy is a "wake-up call" for the planet. However the signs of how we are responding are not positive. The issue wasn't even mentioned in the recent presidential debates in the US. That is a grossly inadequate response to the challenge we are all facing now on the planet. We are already well onto the path of major climate change. Hurricane Sandy is but one indicator of how that change will impact. The stark reality is the climate all of us grew up with is gone. We will never experience that again. What new equilibrium the planet will eventually arrive at is unknown. What is certain, though, is that if we continue to ignore the changes in the climate and our responsibility for them then before that new planetary equilibrium is reached the human species will have long disappeared. And the timescale now appears to be decades rather than centuries.
Watch Bill McKibben on Democracy Now.