2021年8月14日
Brian Wong
EJ Insight
A much-needed wake-up call
The UN Secretary-General termed it a "code red for humanity".
The official IPCC statement declared that "climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying."
Above all, evidence ranging from the flooding of coastal areas and the surge in number of extreme storms – unequivocally points to the fact that climate change not only is real, but that it is high time that we realised how little time we had. The wake-up call was unpleasant, cacophonous, and could not have come at a time any worse than it did, given the downward spiral in geopolitical tensions and international animosity between the two largest players in town. Yet it is what it is: we are at imminent and substantial risk of hitting 1.5 degrees (the threshold of "tolerable" global heating) in the near term. ...
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