We Have 10 Years Left To Save The World, Says Climate Expert: 'Humanity Is At Stake'

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'This is the most important decade in the history of humanity.'

and usher in a dystopian world of choking pollution and huge swaths of unliveable land.

Fast forward to 2020 and the world is a different place. President Donald Trump will pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement if he gets a second term, the Madrid climate summit in December We can increase public health, we can increase the quality of urban life, we can increase the comfort and smartness of transportation. And actually, I also think that we can rise as a human species; we can rise to a higher level of consciousness and a higher level of understanding of who we are on this planet. In the book you set out a vision of the future in 2050 if we do nothing ― it is a bleak scene of air thick with pollution, contaminated water, searing temperatures.

At its heart, this book is about optimism and you write in the book “optimism is not soft it is gritty.” What did you mean by this?Optimism has actually become a very controversial term within the climate field. So it’s important to understand what we mean by optimism. The second part is to make a mindful decision that we are going to change the course of where we’re currently going. It is like we’ve been going down a highway at full speed and all of a sudden we have an exit sign, and we have to decide, are we going to exit or we just going to go down the highway?

Well, the fact is that these don’t operate in completely unlinked universes. They feed on each other.

 

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OldTurk1 This is the epitome of the stupidity of these econuts

Hyperbole much....

It's too late, sorry! 🙃

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