IT’S GONNA SHINE IN DARKNESS!

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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85°C. To put this into perspective, for each 1 degree of temperature increase, grain yields decline by about 5 per cent. Maize, wheat and other major crops have experienced significant yield reductions at the global level of 40 megatons per year between 1981 and 2002 due to a warmer climate. Oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished and sea level has risen. From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming and ice melted. The Arctic sea ice extent has shrunk in every successive decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km² of ice loss every decade.
We have to cut carbon consumption to keep the world from turning into a charcoal briquette. It needs to come from everywhere; holding oil companies accountable, passing legislations, developing renewable energy sources and non-carbon transportation systems among others. Many such pathways are often already technologically viable; all we need is to make sure they are financially stable. If we do not act on climate, we are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health, and quality of life globally. It is not too late to make a difference, but only if we start now at every level, from local to global.
Part of addressing environmental issues is unpacking historic inequity, particularly because disenfranchised groups are usually the ones who are hit the hardest. Often through nontraditional channels—previously silenced voices, like those of tribes and outdoors people who aren’t white, or able-bodied, are being brought into conversation. It is not nearly fast enough, but change is coming, as we’ve seen it happen in other spaces like social and freedom movements. And across the spectrum, young people are organizing and pushing action on climate change. It’s not just Time’s person of the year Greta Thunberg, the youth are ascendant.
The youths have time and again circulated scientific alerts to the seemingly deaf heads of states to act against climate change before it’s out of hand. We are listening to these voices that will never relent until sizeable actions and policies are put in place to address this issue
Definitively, a normal response to any threat is to protect ourselves and the people we love. But in the face of climate change, that very human logic doesn’t help in the long run. We need to think globally and fight the urge to draw inward.  None of these things are going to be easy, but getting bogged down by the bad news doesn’t help either. We have to look for (or create) the light.
 LET'S GET TO WORK

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  1. Charol Fhidhel27 October 2021 at 17:46

    Some great info on here, nicely compiled with some good research 👌
    Nice one Rogers

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