The Climate Crisis

Ok before I start my rant (yes it will be a rant) please don't read on if you are already in a bad state of mind.

*Also if you already don't believe in the Climate Crisis, don't read on, I don't want to waste time trying to convince you.

Our house is on fire. By the year 2300 Boston (for everyone who doesn't live in the US that is a hugely important city) will be underwater if we don't stop listening to big orange politician and continue pumping toxic fumes into the air. Not only Boston though entire countries could disappear like the Maldives and Tuvalu (you might of not heard of them but that doesn't mean its not important). This will lead to more immigration and inventible illegal migration as well. So if big orange politician wants to stop the immigrants and "build a wall" then he better focus on climate change.

The average global temperature has already risen by 1.9 Fahrenheit (1.1 Celsius) while this might not seem like much the effects can be profound. This leads to shorter winters and longer summers, which means less ice for the polar bears (vital for them to get seals) and more drought and famine for us. On top of that the main reason we don't have higher average global temperature is because of the oceans. They have sucked 90 percent of the heat out of the air which has lead to coral bleaching and excellent hot water for devastating hurricanes/typhoons and other weather.

Now even from all of this we're not yet doomed. And even though we as the human race like to find a scapegoat it's everyone's fault. It's my fault. It's your fault. It's big orange politician's fault. But we're all swimming in the same sea and we need to work together to figure this out.

I'd like to end with a speech from Greta Thunberg (if you don't know her you should research her).

Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire.

According to the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our CO₂ emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that those numbers do not include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris agreement work on a global scale. Nor does it include tipping points or feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas being released from the thawing Arctic permafrost.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed. All political movements in their present form have done so, and the media has failed to create broad public awareness.

But Homo sapiens have not yet failed.

Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands. But unless we recognise the overall failures of our current systems, we most probably don’t stand a chance.

We are facing a disaster of unspoken sufferings for enormous amounts of people. And now is not the time for speaking politely or focusing on what we can or cannot say. Now is the time to speak clearly.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that Homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Either we do that or we don’t.

You say nothing in life is black or white. But that is a lie. A very dangerous lie. Either we prevent 1.5 degree [Celsius] of warming or we don’t. Either we avoid setting off that irreversible chain reaction beyond human control or we don’t. Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don’t. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival.

Now we all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the future living conditions for humankind. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

That is up to you and me.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Here in Davos – just like everywhere else – everyone is talking about money. It seems that money and growth are our only main concerns.

And since the climate crisis has never once been treated as a crisis, people are simply not aware of the full consequences on our everyday life. People are not aware that there is such a thing as a carbon budget, and just how incredibly small that remaining carbon budget is. And that needs to change today.

No other current challenge can match the importance of establishing a wide, public awareness and understanding of our rapidly disappearing carbon budget, that should and must become our new global currency and the very heart of future and present economics.

We are now at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilization – and the entire biosphere – must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

We must change almost everything in our current societies. The bigger your carbon footprint is, the bigger your moral duty. The bigger your platform, the bigger your responsibility.

Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire. Because it is.

Thank you for reading and congrats if you read the whole thing . 

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