Why has UN climate chief set the world a two-year deadline? | Inside Story

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'Humanity has only two years left to save the world'.
That's the message from the UN's climate chief.
As more people worldwide deal with record-breaking temperatures and natural disasters...
What more can be done to cut emissions and cool our heating planet?

Presenter: Laura Kyle
Guests:
Patrick Ten Brink - Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau.
John Sweeney - Professor Emeritus at Maynooth University and Contributor to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.
Suzanne Lynch - Associate Editor and Global Playbook author at Politico

#ClimateEmergency #SaveOurPlanet #ActNow #ClimateAction #GlobalWarming #SaveTheEarth #Sustainability #TimeIsRunningOut
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To do anything genuinely meaningful would cause a severe disruption to the global money "metabolism". Greed has supplanted wisdom in the 21st Century. Massive governmental decisions would be required for genuinely efficacious actions. Corporations now "own and operate" most governments. The next quarterly report has become more important than humanity itself.

treefrog
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“Why are our governments not doing anything?” Greed.

WoodstockG
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To make a difference we would all have to consume and live like they did 200 years ago. That would take care of the corporations. Since that is unlikely to happen we will be lucky if a few thousand of us will end up living like we did 200, 000 years ago.

uhadonejob
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No representation whatsoever from the Global South - those on the frontlines of the climate crisis but not the front pages. The people who have contributed the least but have been suffering the most. What about their lived experiences? They have their own voices to speak to the urgency and scale of the problem. Whilst I appreciate the panel, the lack of representation is beyond astounding.

LuluMBear
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They aren't going to do it. Get ready for the wasteland.

crovian
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He was being nice. We are nowhere near being able to reverse what we already set in motion. We can only mitigate and adapt. But anything done to try to reduce damages is welcome.

mayatara
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Hint: We have been over a 1.5C Global Temp Anomaly for over a year now, and it is not decreasing it is accelerating.

bargdaffy
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Decades I have wished more people had great concern over the decision to ignore the science - we tried so hard to warn the world -
Two years - he says -
1.5 she says
I thought
1.3 was too hot to turn around ?
No matter
No one cares
😢

catythatzallnow
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Climate change not being tackled because people think "who's going to pay the rent? who's going to pay the mortgage?"
Once again, landlords are to blame. If the land was set free and the people had their basic rights guaranteed, they would be under a lot less pressure to make a profit so they can survive.

trichomaxxx
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We need to stop saying "save the planet" the planet will live on without us, its the species that currently live on the planet that we need to save

dawnpalmby
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I keep hearing the inevitable refrain that "we must look to our leaders for ...". The sad reality is that it has been the collective actions of our world leaders for decades that have led 8 billion human beings to the precipice of annihilation! Wisdom itself has been supplanted by the narrow greed and thirst for power by a very, very privileged few. The suicidal "hive mentality" of the human species will prove to be the source of our demise.

treefrog
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no the answer is corporations and governments not every person.

dentureclinic
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They are worried about migration? Then do something about the climate.

WoodstockG
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Two Years? Two Years to enjoy the rest of your Life, this is Extinction.

wvowhum
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Nobody talking about emissions from military interventions:-
Bombs
Military jet planes
Tanks
Well, I could go on.

deebarnard
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All of us? It’s our responsibility?

It’s like 12 companies, and our addiction to their products.

geistacwm
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Money isn’t going to fix this issue, neither is government. No one wants to change their lifestyle but that is what is required now.

NicoleCobbs
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The planet will get along quite well. It is our current civilization which can not and should not survive.

frankblangeard
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A 2 year warning that is only 20 years tooo late.

zebdubt
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"World is going to overshoot 1, 5C..." FFS. We have already crossed that threshold. Over 12 months now, but in few years we are passing long term 1, 5C and seeking to go past 2, 0C (before 2040). Some days have been past 2C already (that's not climatic temp, yet).

10 months on record braking heat, monthly temperature records are blown to new levels...

We are currently heading toward 3-5C warming by 2100.

Or more if Hansen SO2 predictions are right... Doubling CO2 can mean 4, 8C rise instead IPCC still argues for 3, 0C rise... The larger rise is hidden under SO2 generated temporal cloud cover. Keeping fossil burners on keeps SO2 barrier, but the gap grows and so does warming ghg levels if we do so.

Earth energy imbalance is rising rapidly. We can measure this imbalance accurately from space (even more accurately than temperature). While Earth takes more enrgy in itself than loses to space, it is clear that planet is warming. (in physics, black body radiation...)


We have no time to save 1, 5C or even 2, 0C. But we have time to limit warming at 3, 0C, or what ever our greedy people are letting it be.

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