Why has UN climate chief set the world a two-year deadline? | Inside Story
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Published 2024-04-12
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
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All Comments (21)
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“Why are our governments not doing anything?” Greed.
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Get ready for Mad Max in real life
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Two Years? Two Years to enjoy the rest of your Life, this is Extinction.
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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.
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They aren't going to do it. Get ready for the wasteland.
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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.
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no the answer is corporations and governments not every person.
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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 😢
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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.
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Greed is the killer of all life
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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.
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They are worried about migration? Then do something about the climate.
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Nobody talking about emissions from military interventions:- Bombs Military jet planes Tanks Well, I could go on.
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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.
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When are people going to start looking at the impact of military operations on the planet
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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.
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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
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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.
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We're doomed.
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A 2 year warning that is only 20 years tooo late.
