Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast

-Tipping points could fundamentally disrupt the planet and produce abrupt change in the climate.

-A mass methane release could put us on an irreversible path to full land-ice melt, causing sea levels to rise by up to 30 metres.

-We must take immediate action to reduce global warming and build resilience with these tipping points in mind.

 
The speed and scale of the response to COVID-19 by governments, businesses and individuals seems to provide hope that we can react to the climate change crisis in a similarly decisive manner – but history tells us that humans do not react to slow-moving and distant threats. Our evolution has selected the “fight or flight” instinct to deal with environmental change, so rather like the metaphor of the frog in boiling water, we tend to react too little and too late to gradual change.

Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης εδώ

Πηγή: weforum.org