We can all see the increasing incidence of more severe climate-induced disasters.

These have been predicted for 30 years in the common scientific magazines by specialists from different fields, often with otherwise divergent opinions.

Whether or not this is a product of western-led industrialisation is immaterial. We know that decisive and immediate action might at least slow this warming process.

We rely on scientists for detailed weather forecasts but refuse to listen to climate warnings.

That is akin to a sick person laughing off the doctor's cancer diagnosis.Failure to act will further increase primary production costs, refugee populations and extinctions of critical species. Why leave such decisions to people sometimes labelled as fringe activists?

If we want a say in the outcomes, we need to face this together, because it is already too late.

Graeme Kennedy

Port Macquarie