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David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon
Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands
Damian Carrington in Katowice
Mon 3 Dec 2018 07.29 EST
The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland.
The naturalist was chosen to represent the worlds people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris climate deal into reality.
As part of the UNs peoples seat initiative, messages were gathered from all over the world to inform Attenboroughs address on Monday. Right now we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change, he said. If we dont take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
Do you not see what is going on around you? asks one young man in a video message played as part of a montage to the delegates. We are already seeing increased impacts of climate change in China, says a young woman. Another woman, standing outside a building burned down by a wildfire, says: This used to be my home.
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Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands
Damian Carrington in Katowice
Mon 3 Dec 2018 07.29 EST
The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland.
The naturalist was chosen to represent the worlds people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris climate deal into reality.
As part of the UNs peoples seat initiative, messages were gathered from all over the world to inform Attenboroughs address on Monday. Right now we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change, he said. If we dont take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
Do you not see what is going on around you? asks one young man in a video message played as part of a montage to the delegates. We are already seeing increased impacts of climate change in China, says a young woman. Another woman, standing outside a building burned down by a wildfire, says: This used to be my home.
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David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon (Original Post)
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Dec 2018
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LonePirate
(13,417 posts)1. Water and food shortages are definitely possible in the next 30 or so years.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)2. Horrifyingly, it's what will be needed to make people wake up and get their heads out of
their asses.
We can only hope we are not too late and the planet is not on an irreversible path to becoming a barren wasteland.
VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)3. Sooner
This is Lake Mead
VOX
(22,976 posts)5. Holy shit.
Says it all. To all the libertarians who insist that theres enough land for everybody yes, but theres no damn water!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)4. hoping the world outlives me
Somewhere around 2010, with the GOPer extremist coup, I was just hoping my country would outlive me. Now, I'm hoping what we now see as the natural world outlives me. (The planet will be fine even if it's more like Venus than the Earth we know now).
VOX
(22,976 posts)6. This ought to spike "prepper" sales, and warm the hearts of Rapture-ready folks.
But the Republican Party will just shrug.