World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022

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The first World Scientists Warning on a Climate Crisis was given to the world 30 years ago, in 1992. Since then, Greenhouse Gas Emissions have risen 30%.

Each year now, the World Scientists Warning is updated, just prior to the COP, in this case COP27 in Egypt that I will be leaving for in less than a week.

I chat about the latest peer reviewed paper just published. Open Source: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biac083/6764747

The most significant statement in the paper is the following:

“As has been demonstrated by the surge in yearly climate disasters, we are now in a major climate crisis and global catastrophe with far worse in store if we continue with business as usual. As such, there is more at stake today than at any time since the advent of the stable climate system that has supported us for more than 10,000 years. Here we stand at the precipice, with the opportunity to make such an immense difference for life on Earth. Approximately one hundred billion people have lived and died over the 2-million-year history of humans on Earth (Curtin 2007), and there are potentially trillions of human beings who will someday exist whose fate depends on the choices we make today. The very future of humanity depends on the creativity, moral fiber, and perseverance of the 8 billion of us on the planet now. Rather than lose hope, we must equitably reduce ecological overshoot and immediately pursue massive-scale climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is the only way we can limit the near-term damage, preserve nature, avoid untold human suffering, and give future generations the opportunities they deserve.”

Within this quote, I think that the most important sentence is as follows:

“Approximately one hundred billion people have lived and died over the 2-million-year history of humans on Earth (Curtin 2007), and there are potentially trillions of human beings who will someday exist whose fate depends on the choices we make today.”

Talk about pressure on ourselves, on the people living today. The fate of trillions of future humans is in our hands today, and we are screwing it up. Big time.

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Sincerely,
Paul

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