Hello,

1. We should and we need to worry about climate change.

2, Our landscape is changing heavily, the one clear example are the melting glaciers & of course % of green areas has been reducing every decade.

3. Human population is increasing like never before, specially (South) Asian countries.

4. We are in process of taking right steps, as we our self dont know what is right, we are experimenting with solutions to fight with climate change impacts.

5. Sustainable goals are not really a solution, rather they are benchmark to check where our solutions are leading and how are we keeping up with Climate Change.

As a remark. I would say, most of the nations around the globe are getting serious about it and are doing something to slow down the process of climate change, we can definitely not stop it, but yes we can slow it a bit and adapt to it. 

Dear Yolanda

Yes for the first two questions. About the  last ones I tend to think about it based on the ecological economics approach. You can check the work of Georgescu-Roegen and Daly, for example. They discuss the relation between the economic growth limit and  non renewable resources scarcity. I would say that we are taking the "possible" steps by the scenario we're facing. But we need to do much more.

Hello Yolanda and all, I'm concerned about climate change.  I notice that our temperatures are increasing from 28 Celsius in the afternoons to 35 C.  My country has suffered from deforestation over the last 15 years or so.  Some have shifted the cause to El Nino; and La Nina to explain the annual floods and flash floods.  I have reduced using the car as much as possible; and adopted Reduce, re-use, re-cycle.  If all the citizens would do the same, we may slow down climate change.  Thanks.

As tornadoes come and go in an area where they were completely absent before and as flooding from excessive rain has become common (previously unknown), yes, we need to do something about it soon!

Those who don't will worry more.

Sustainable development is the only solution, because using fossil fuels did not work. But we should have changed earlier to make a difference in the near future. Instead we are going to get hit and suffer more. 

One thing people don't realize is that speed of the wind has no upper limits. All the trees that have fallen down from strong winds (there are many) is the evidence of the enormity of changes in the air.

Yes of course we have to worry about climate change and there are many studies and research have been conducted about this issue, and the temperature have been increased and the rainfall season has been shifted, we can plant the most tolerant plants, we can change the crop pattern.

Regarding to other issues, such as minimize using our cars, and trying to find an alternative sources of energy, such as the solar energy…

 Are we taking the right steps?   No

With no doubt, climate change is definitely a major concern to our planet following the scientific evidence given by the researchers throughout the world, and "sustainable development" is the way forward tackle the global warming issue. I do not think we are adopting the wrong strategy (sustainability), but what we are lacking is the "down to the ground" execution.

Regarding to the question on "whether landscape change is an impact resulted from climate change", I would like to give an example on small island, which is extremely vulnerable to climate change because of its typically fragile infrastructure, small watersheds and limited institutional capacity. Among the climate change impacts to small island are such as sea level rises, severe weather events, inland flooding, agricultural water shortages and crop damage etc.

It is, therefore, imperative to implement adaptation strategies through land use change in order to build resilience. The appropriate adaptations involve adapting the locations of new land uses (such as conversion of natural habitat to development), and adapting the impacts on existing uses, which cannot easily change locations. Locational adaptations for new land uses involve finding alternative locations for particular land uses that will not be prone to the impacts of climate change. For example, locating new development out of flood prone areas, or locating new agricultural uses out of drought-prone soils. Adaptations for existing land uses are more complex, with a multitude of adaptations, appropriate to the specific use. For example, floodproofing existing structures, or finding new irrigation sources for crops on droughty soils.