UN: Climate Change Now Or Never.
An alarming report on Climate Change from the United Nations points to a very different and scary World without immediate action to halt greenhouse gas emissions. (LA Times)
“The scientific report, which was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, found that even if nations impose the strictest cuts to atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas emissions today, global warming is likely within the next two decades to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius — the more ambitious limit targeted in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Using the strongest language yet to describe humans’ role in the crisis, the report’s authors began their summary with the line: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As recently as 2013, when the last report was published, the IPCC had said it was “extremely likely” that emissions from energy and industry were to blame.”
Climate Change is happening now and the existential threat to the World could not be clearer. In America alone, the Western wild fires continue to rage, the Midwest is routinely drenched with floods that are supposed to happen once in lifetime and extraordinarily intense hurricanes keep washing ashore, naming just a few disasters to befall this nation. These environmental catastrophes are a direct result of a World that has not given a damn about the way we produce, what we produce or the harmful side effects of unregulated industries. If we still want to have a planet to live on then that must change. Now or never.
