The climate crisis, according to Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, “is our third World War. The Collins dictionary chose “climate strike” as its word of the year, while the Oxford English dictionary plumped for “climate emergency”. Endless growthThe IPCC was first convened in the early 1990s to tackle the threat of dangerous climate change, yet in the quarter century since its inception, global CO2 emissions have actually doubled. “The next 10 years are going to decide what sort of climate outcome we end up with,” said analyst Nick Stansbury. If you are still feeling calm about the climate emergency, you simply haven’t been following the science.

Source: The Irish Times December 30, 2019 01:18 UTC