Climate Education: One Last Chance

 

The topic of the WildEarth Climate Action Team's last climate education class was:

One Last Chance: The Defining Year for the Planet. 

Friday, August 14, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. 

We considered some of these key articles from the July 20-27 special TIME Magazine issue on climate. (Links below). 

TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLES: 

     (1) “2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance to Save the Climate.” https://time.com/5864692/climate-change-defining-moment/  -this is a long essay, the central one of the issue.

     (2)  “Why the Larger Climate Movement Is Finally Embracing the Fight Against Environmental Racism”    https://time.com/5864704/environmental-racism-climate-change/
           -this is one of several shorter articles tying antiracism with climate change.

I was not able to access more of the TIME articles on the internet.  But these 2 short- to moderate-length articles also speak to the short time frame ahead of us:
(1)  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736  “Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months”
(2)   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert
   “Governments are planning to spend $9tn (£7.2tn) globally in the next few months on rescuing their economies from the coronavirus crisis, the IEA has calculated. The stimulus packages created this year will determine the shape of the global economy for the next three years, according to Birol, and within that time emissions must start to fall sharply and permanently, or climate targets will be out of reach.”

and then there’s this:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwpdb/the-climate-change-paper-so-depressing-its-sending-people-to-therapy  (2-27-19)  “The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy:  On average, three people read an academic paper. At least 100,000 have read this—and a lot of them haven't taken it very well.”   This article above is about the academic paper but is not the academic paper itself. The subject of both is not just the science, but the argument that civilizational collapse is unavoidable.