I remember when I was a teenager and in my 20s talking about climate change, I really did believe that we could avert disaster but as I’ve grown older I’ve become a pessimist and frankly I can only imagine dystopic futures.  I try to do my part as I try and eat less meat, drive a hybrid, have solar panels on my house and reuse rain water but it’s not enough.  We have in place a system of power that only forces politicians to look 4 years into the future and wonder why we’re not tackling our civilization’s greatest problems…

The world is failing in its effort to avert catastrophic climate change, a United Nations panel warned on Monday, and the result will be more deaths and climate refugees due to extreme weather and rising seas, a greater rate of species extinction and reduced economic growth.

In a report released late on Sunday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the global community still has a chance of limiting the average increase in temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a goal sanctioned by the Paris climate agreement three years ago.

Source: The Globe & Mail

I hate how politicians talk about economic growth as if it’s the most important thing, we’ll continue to grow economically till we’re all dead great.