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While Earth has experienced many changes in climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago. We can’t blame the sun (especially not now), so who CAN we blame? The answer, alas, is us.

In 2007, a report by the UN showed strong scientific evidence that climate change is mostly due to human activities, but they weren’t able to prove that the same thing has caused the melting poles (which could lead to a devastating sea level rise). Now they are.
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Today Henry Paulson, acting in desperation, radically revised the U.S. bailout package. Instead of buying toxic assets from banks, now it will try to inject money directly into the economy by supporting the consumer debt markets directly. Meanwhile, stock exchanges around the world slumped as economy after economy literally fell off a cliff when consumption, quite simply, stopped.

Meanwhile, US credit card companies were canceling millions of credit cards, especially those not often used, and credit card companies were making efforts to justify increasing interest wrates on credit cards by artificially damaging consumer credit.
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?instead of charging more (too obvious) – Manufacturers of food and cleaning products are reducing the size of their packages, so they can keep their prices the same. This has been done in the past, but now that there’s a recession on, there’s likely to be a lot more of this in future.
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Either way, it means the end of nations – The Maldives are drowning and the president-elect of that country is trying to buy a new homeland, since they can’t get any other country to take them in as refugees.

The nation of Maldives is a group of over 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean that together comprise the lowest country in the world, only about 3 feet about sea level.

President-elect Mohamed Nasheed wants to use tourist revenues (the Maldives is a popular tourist destination) to buy land somewhere in the area with a similar culture?maybe India or Sri Lanka?where his 300,000 citizens can relocate.
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