THE RADICAL STEP
BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL
Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It’s time to take the most radical step you’ve ever taken in your life. It’s time to build the community you need to survive.
An exclusive Guardian survey of hundreds of the world’s leading clvimate experts has found that:
- 77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a devastating degree of heating;
- almost half – 42% – think it will be more than 3C;
- only 6% think the 1.5C limit will be achieved.
As The Guardian reports:
‘Jonathan Cullen, at the University of Cambridge, was particularly blunt: “1.5C is a political game – we were never going to reach this target.”
The climate emergency is already here. Even just 1C of heating has supercharged the planet’s extreme weather, delivering searing heatwaves from the US to Europe to China that would have been otherwise impossible. Millions of people have very likely died early as a result already. At just 2C, the brutal heatwave that struck the Pacific north-west of America in 2021 will be 100-200 times more likely.’
… “I am scared mightily – I don’t see how we are able to get out of this mess,” said Tim Benton, an expert on food security and food systems at the Chatham House thinktank. He said the cost of protecting people and recovering from climate disasters will be huge, with yet more discord and delay over who pays the bills. Numerous experts were worried over food production: “We’ve barely started to see the impacts,” said one.’
It’s time to build the community you need to survive the climate chaos future unfolding in real-time.
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