As I write in my book, “A rise of 5℃ is a mass extinction level event. Our civilization will break down as our environment does and the end of our Anthropocene Epoch will soon follow.”
Based on this new French climate model, Joeri Rogelj, an associate professor at Imperial College London warns, “Unfortunately, our global failure to implement meaningful action on climate change over recent decades has put us in a situation where what we need to do to keep warming to safe levels is extremely simple. Global greenhouse gas emissions need to decline today rather than tomorrow, and global CO2 emissions should be brought to net zero.”
Today. Not tomorrow. Hope to see you joining the international Climate Strike this Friday.