A partial transcript of the stark warning issued in the video below by renowned professor Kevin Anderson…
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We are heading towards 3° to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species including our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.

We are locking in very high levels of sea level rise, maybe 7 to 8 meters. We are changing weather and rainfall patterns as well as insect pollination of our crops. All of this plays out in one disaster after another. We’re talking about societal collapse here.

Countries make various promises about what they are going to do against climate change. These promises are a disaster and overly optimistic because they only rely on future generations, our children and grandchildren, to develop technologies that we don’t have today.

Pseudo-technologies are a facade to avoid asking the difficult political and equity-based questions. 'Net Zero' is a dangerous term in my view, and really means NOT zero. I always say 'net zero' is latin for 'kick the can down the road'.

I have to be honest and say as someone who has worked on climate change for years, my best guess is that we are going to fail. But it is a *choice* to fail. Political leaders, academia, and journalism have repeatedly chosen to fail on climate for 30 years.

It is a choice to fail, and it’s a choice to succeed. If we sit back and wait for the great and good to deliver this change, then we will fail. It comes down to all of us to play our role as best as we can in fighting the climate crisis. Hope arises from civility society.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FtS_HNbkc

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