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orleans

(34,060 posts)
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 12:48 AM Mar 2019

thoughts on the united nations climate report?

740 page report.

i saw this in the hill and i fucking cried:

"A United Nations report released Wednesday issued a blunt warning about the effects of human activity on the Earth, projecting that air pollution and other environmental consequences could lead to the premature deaths of millions of people over the next few decades. "

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"Urgent action at an unprecedented scale is necessary to arrest and reverse this situation, thereby protecting human and environmental health and maintaining the current and future integrity of global ecosystems," the report continues."

snip

"António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, told global leaders in September that the world has less than two years to avoid "runaway climate change."
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/433820-un-report-urgent-action-needed-to-protect-human-and-environmental

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