Morrell was invited to talk at a symposium entitled, ‘Climate Change – What’s to be Done?’, where he discussed what individuals can do to tackle climate change through reducing their CO2 emissions and being more efficient with their energy use.

Speaking at the event, Morrell claimed that global warming is a real and imminent threat to the existing social and economic well-being of the world and that it has serious implications for marginal, poorer populations in the third world which will have direct repercussions on the first world.

“When farming becomes untenable in Africa, or when sea levels regularly rise over coastal towns and villages in Asia, then these populations will move,” said the life-long climate change campaigner.

“But they have to go somewhere. We can ‘t run a world on permanent UN refugee camps. And the inevitable consequence will be conflict – revolution or war. Military strategists are already looking at these scenarios and see them as a substantial threat to local national security.”

Morrell went on to state that the solution to dealing with global warming requires billions of people to take individual responsibility for their carbon footprint and from there to take action to reduce their impact.

“If we act now then we can fend off the climatic tipping point, build in development time for new technology to take over from the carbon economy and future proof the world from climate wars.“

Other speakers at the event included Friends of the Earth’s Senior Parliamentary Campaigner Martyn Williams, who talked about the facts about climate change, and former Minister of State for the Environment Michael Meacher MP, who discussed what the Government can do in relation to the issue.

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