‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief
‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief
On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near
The world is still underestimating the risk of catastrophic climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse, the UN secretary general has warned in the run-up to Cop29, acknowledging that the rise in global heating is on course to soar past 1.5C (2.7F) over pre-industrial levels in the coming years.
Humanity is approaching potentially irreversible tipping points such as the collapse of the Amazon rainforest and the Greenland ice sheet as global temperatures rise, António Guterres has said, warning that governments are not making the deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions needed to limit warming to safe levels.
Speaking to the Guardian, the UN secretary general said that a second US departure from the Paris climate agreement under a new Donald Trump presidency would risk crippling the process but said the accord would survive.
Too late. It's over. Don't have kids.
You mean, "drill, drill, drill"? Because that is the plan now.
This is pretty much an open letter to Biden.
Anyone who's paying attention knows that not much happens before the Empire takes its responsibility as self-appointed masters of the world seriously, and nobody is under any illusions that the incoming administration is not going to make everything much worse if allowed to.
Yeah that's not going to happen. If we haven't been able to make any significant inroads on mitigating climate change in the last 20 years, we sure as hell aren't going to with the rise of strident climate change denier politicians to power all over the world. We are fucked.
Does anyone believe we will ever Act Now? We need massive, fundamental change to our current capitalist society. Impossible to do so without revolution or global societal collapse IMO.
I thought the tipping point had been miscalculated due to not factoring in the colapse if sea currents and new calculations show we're well past it. There's only mitigation left. Prevention has been out the window for a long time.