United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that countries must phase out the burning of coal, oil, and gas. He added that the current policies would lead to...
The ocean wasn’t full of plastic during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. There wasn’t already a mass extinction underway before the climate shifted. The forests hadn’t been chopped down, the oceans hadn’t been overfished, the land hadn’t been paved with concrete and asphalt. There weren’t nuclear power plants that will melt down if they aren’t properly decommissioned after their cooling reservoirs dry up, and there weren’t nuclear weapons that will be fired off in the death throes of civilization.
Climate change is destabilizing, and that means everything else becomes much more dangerous too.
We face dangers beyond simple climate change.
The ocean wasn’t full of plastic during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. There wasn’t already a mass extinction underway before the climate shifted. The forests hadn’t been chopped down, the oceans hadn’t been overfished, the land hadn’t been paved with concrete and asphalt. There weren’t nuclear power plants that will melt down if they aren’t properly decommissioned after their cooling reservoirs dry up, and there weren’t nuclear weapons that will be fired off in the death throes of civilization.
Climate change is destabilizing, and that means everything else becomes much more dangerous too.