Yep, It’s A Crisis

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, et.al, 28July 2021 (BioScience)

“…[In 2019, more than 11,000 scientist signatories from 153 countries] called for transformative change. Since the article's publication, more than 2,800 additional scientists have signed that declaration of a climate emergency…But, at the same time, there has been an unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019, including devastating flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record shattering heat waves and wildfires in Australia and the Western United States, an extraordinary Atlantic hurricane season, and devastating cyclones in Africa, South Asia, and the West Pacific…

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There is also mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed tipping points associated with critical parts of the Earth system, including the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, warm-water coral reefs, and the Amazon rainforest…[Data on food supply, climate economics, energy use, greenhouse gases and temperature, melting ice, ocean changes, and climate-related responses show] the consequences of unrelenting business as usual…

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…[It is now urgent] to eliminate fossil fuels and air pollutants, protect Earth's ecosystems, switch to mostly plant-based diets, move to ecological economics, and slow the growth of human population through] a significant carbon price…a global phase-out and eventual permanent ban of fossil fuels…[and] the development of strategic climate reserves to strictly protect and restore natural carbon sinks and biodiversity…[W]e reaffirm the climate emergency declaration and again call for transformative change, which is needed now more than ever…” click here for more

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