Significantly reducing climate change means reducing the use of fossil fuels

I will begin this entry by pointing out that, according to the conclusions of the new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a human species we only have an estimated five years to completely change our production and economic model, and thus significantly reduce climate change.

As I have been mentioning in my previous publications, for decades the climate crisis has been interpreted in a wrong way, therefore, that wrong vision is the main problem we have as a species, since it does not allow us to stop the negative impacts we generate to the climate, in opposition we are condemning our own existence on the planet.

In the previous publication I emphasized that the projections made by this Intergovernmental Panel have been methodically projected by leading experts on Climate Change, who admit irreversible effects of climate change on the planet.

These projections, which are not at all favorable for the health of the planet, constitute a devastating warning about the impacts that are already irreversibly changing the planet, so that little or nothing can be done to completely counteract the adverse effects that we have been generating for decades.

Consequently, it is assumed that in this current scenario it is up to the states and politicians to initiate a real exercise by designing strategies that can be fulfilled in the short and medium term, since ignoring them will immediately lead us to an unprecedented red alert.

Hence, a radical transformation is now needed at the level of states, international institutions, and society in general, as it will not be easy to combat the adverse climatic effects that are looming in the coming years, which will have an economic, social and environmental impact.

For the scientific community, one of the radical actions to combat the adverse climate effects that lie ahead in the coming years is to take the definitive step in the political battle to end the fossil fuel era.

➊ Álvarez C El aviso de la ciencia da paso a la batalla política para terminar con la era de los combustibles fósiles. Link

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