The World Wild Life Fund’s study into climate change suggested that we had five years at the very most to start turning thing around or climate change and all that entails would become irreversible and we would all suffer the consequences.

Next month world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen for the 2009 Environmental Summit and already the name calling has started with African leaders attacking Australia’s Prime Minister. As the Green Living Blog says … when it comes to Copenhagen get your pessimism in early.

Here in the United States last week a key environmental bill seemed on the verge of stalling in Congress simply because the Republicans wanted yet another survey by the Environmental Protection Agency after the last survey by the Environmental Protection Agency failed to agree with their blinkered view of climate change.

What do we have to do to get world leaders … and our elected representatives … off their collective bottoms and motivated to actually save the planet?

Of course we can do nothing about those people who are so out of touch with reality and just go on trying to save the planet by recycling and cutting back on consumption … that’s really the easy option and like all easy options it’s probably not much of an option at all.

Or we can get a little fired up and start writing to our representatives and giving them plenty of good reasons why they need to get in touch with reality and understand that we’re facing a global catastrophe if they don’t stop bickering and get on with passing legislation that has the teeth to protect the environment.

Sometimes all it will take is a hint that they may not get elected next time and history may remember them as the people in authority who sat around doing nothing while the environment began to come apart at the seams.

And is there really any hope? Of course there is just so long as we are prepared to fight for the planet!