The world is careening toward levels of global warming that will have irreversible impacts, a new landmark report says, but we already have the solutions — the only thing preventing us from taking advantage of them is political will and status-quo interests in fossil fuels.
The third and final installment of the sixth UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, published Monday, shows how renewable energy sources like wind and solar are now economically viable and becoming cheaper by the day. But while the focus on solutions give the report an optimistic tone, it also serves as a reminder of how policies lag far behind science, technology and even economics.
He rides his bike, has solar panels, and eats veggies. But this one decision makes his carbon footprint worse 05:14It's this heavy reliance on coal, oil and fossil gas that is behind climate change. While individual choices and tracking your"carbon footprint" have been popular ways for people to respond to the crisis, there is a growing understanding that real change must come from reducing the availability of fossil fuels, not just the demand.
Not if you believe in what Steven Hawking said. ThT it’s already to late. Can slow things down but not going to change the outcome.
DontLookUp The earth is doomed because the people in charge of saving it are into self service vs public service.
I don't think so. I think we ran out of time a decade ago
Petrine05647629 The UN is presenting total Bull Shit. The socalled climate problem is an imaginaire problem!
The world, makind I mean, was a big failure. The only best way to rearrange a minimally decent response to it is by pulverizing the humans and recreating them back again. Actually, thinking with myself, not recreating at all, since humans haven't served for much after all.
Drastic climate change has already started...and the socio/political upheavels and desolations that go with it.
Russian soldiers executed civilians, men and women while their hands were tied behind their backs, as crimes against humanity added to the record of the Russian occupation
At the heart of environmentalism and its 'Green New Deal' agenda is the reduction, if not the elimination, of humans from planet Earth.
It’s been running out for such a long time. Some are saying we’re already past the point of no return. We officially fucked the planet over. And we will die in pain as the world, rightly, devours us and humankind is destroyed. Have a nice week.
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