This quotation is from the end of Stephen M. Gardiner’s book A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change. The book argues that climate change is already an ethical failure, as we have not yet succeeded in putting measures in place to deal with climate change.
Climate change seems to be our biggest long term problem, coming closer every day. Our newspapers and social media are full of it. Greta Thunberg talks about nothing else and leaders lash out at her saying she is naive. ‘It’s not so simple,’ they say.
To have a chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, society needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050—meaning that if we can’t transition to an emissions-free economy by that time, we’ll need to find ways to remove everything we’re still pumping into the atmosphere.
The climate dragon is awake. Billions of tonnes of meltwater are pouring off the Greenland ice sheet just as Trump flippantly makes predatory real estate threats to acquire the country.
Scientists believe they’ve uncovered a tipping point in the deforestation of landscapes across Earth: Once an area loses half its forest, the rest of the forest is often swift to fall.
European researchers on Wednesday said 2019 was the second-hottest year in recorded history, the latest bellwether as activists and scientists urge dramatic action to rein in carbon emissions and the fallout from climate change.
