The Committee on Climate Change's new report sets minimum targets for reducing greenhouse gases. It's too little, far too lateThe crisis is not imminent. The crisis is here. The recent infernos in Australia; the storms and floods in Brazil, Madagascar, Spain and the US; and the economic collapse in Somalia, caused in part by a devastating cycle of droughts and floods, are not, or not only, a vision of the future. They are signs of a current and escalating catastrophe.This is why several governments and parliaments, the UK's among them, have declared a climate emergency. But no one in government acts as if it is real. They operate within the old world of incremental planning for a disaster that has yet to arrive. Continue reading...
Our endangered climate has a new foe: target culture | George Monbiot
29. ledna 2020 7:15
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/climate-targets-committee-on-climate-change-report
Zdroj: The Guardian