[WATCH] A diagnosis for Mother Earth: "Your mother is very sick"

It's easy to ignore the reality of climate change when it's all data and statistics, but what if hearing about climate change was like learning that someone you loved was terminally ill?

Jump to 2:05 to see Dr Towle give the bad news.

Keynote presentation to the 2014 ACTS (Australasian Campuses Toward Sustainability) conference by Dr Nick Towle.

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