This Is What a Civilization Committing Climate Suicide Looks Like
It’s Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the UN, who’s put the plight we face at this juncture in human history most simply and profoundly. “We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.”
It should be becoming startlingly clear, right about now, just how right he is. This is what a civilization committing climate suicide looks like.
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“2022 will be remembered by history as the year that the mega-scale impacts of climate change became suddenly, frighteningly real.”
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No corner of the globe, we’ve seen, is immune from the mega-scale impacts of climate change. Just in the last few months, the list of places affected includes Florida, Pakistan, China, Europe.
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We haven’t come to terms yet with the brutal fact that we have crossed perhaps the gravest and most historic threshold in human history.
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The year 2022 has been characterized by record-breaking weather events, and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that we are faced with a choice between collective action or collective suicide. No corner of the globe is immune to the mega-scale impacts of climate change, as we have seen in recent months with events in Florida, Pakistan, China, and Europe. We must come to terms with the fact that we have crossed a historic threshold and are now committing climate suicide. It is up to us to take immediate and collective action to mitigate the worst effects of climate change before it's too late.