“Let’s be clear: we don’t need a low carbon economy, we don’t need to lower emissions — our emissions have to stop.” 👏👏👏 GretaThunberg
. During her talk, she scolded leaders around the world for doing “basically nothing” to address reduce carbon emissions despite the ever-growing threat of total climate catastrophe.
“Pretty much nothing has been done since the global emissions of CO2 has not reduced. If you see it from that aspect, what has concretely been done, if you see it from a bigger perspective, basically nothing,” she said.Each year, the forum gathers leaders in politics, business and finance who come together to discuss the most pressing issues.
“Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour,” Thunberg declared. “Let’s be clear: we don’t need a low carbon economy, we don’t need to lower emissions — our emissions have to stop.” According to Thunberg, this is the only thing that would keep temperatures from rising past 1.5 degrees. Along with other young activists, she is now calling for governments to stop funding the production of fossil fuels internationally to reduce the rapid rise of global emissions that threaten the earth. “We don't want these things done by 2050, or 2030 or even 2021 — we want this done now,” she said.
The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report speaks to the urgency of the issue that Thunberg is using her platform to elevate. It finds that countries can only release approximately another 420 gigatons of carbon dioxide to have even a 67% chance to. According to scientific calculations, at our current levels of emissions, that amount of CO2 will be emitted within about eight and a half years."Even with a 1C increase people are dying of climate change.
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