Emma Thompson: Everything depends on what we do now

[yonder]

Opinion by Emma Thompson
(CNN) 11:24 AM ET, Tue September 3, 2019

We have weaponized our planet. All over the world life forms are experiencing weather that attacks rather than sustains. Unseasonal heat that kills, rain that instead of sweetening, inundates and destroys, hurricanes that devastate.

Billions have been spent on misinforming the public and on lying about the truth of our situation. Why? In order to protect the interests of the few who gain from the exploitation of the planet's resources. Now, after the five hottest years on record, as the Amazon burns and Greenland melts, the world is waking up to the fierce urgency of the climate emergency we have created.

Big government and corporate power have to be harnessed. The US and China, the two most powerful nations and the ones that cause the most damage through their emissions, can lead the way. They will have to cooperate. This is a new politics -- a system-change for nothing less than the survival of the planet and all life forms that exist upon it.

more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/opinions/we-have-weaponized-our-planet-emma-thompson/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. Hear hear!

[warmfeet]

2. Emma is correct.

Now what will we do about it, hmm?

[Pantagruel]

3. Stop breeding

It's the easiest, most effective way to cut consumption. Global population needs to be halved.

[saidsimplesimon]

4. Not an option for me, I have only

one. We can only do our best.