Weve broken the rule adopted by our canine friendsof not soiling the place where they sleep (unless theyre sick or incontinent, but thats a different blog). We took that to mean our own back yards, businesses and country. And while we may have kept them nice and tidy, the trouble is, we didnt realize that with globalization every spot on the planet would be our back yard.

This means there is no place to hide from our pollution of the skies and oceans. Carbon emissions and plastic stay around for a long, long time.

A report on climate change released yesterday by Lloyds paints a picture of potential devastationrising temperatures and sea levels, scarcities of water and cultivatable land, diminishing food supplies, volatile weather patterns and mass migrations from the developing to the developed world because of climate impact, especiallyon countries near the equator.