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global warming
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Anatomy of the climate catastrophe
Everyone is talking about climate change, but nobody can see through it anymore. About the causes of the crisis and what the future looks like – at 1.5 to four degrees. Three scenarios and an analysis in graphics.
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The US President did not speak explicitly about the climate crisis, the main topic of this year’s World Economic Forum. A few hours before his appearance in Davos, Greta Thunberg had spoken there.
She called on politicians to better protect the climate and listen more to science. “Nothing has been done,” complained the 17-year-old. “I cannot complain that I am not being listened to. I am listened to all the time,” said Thunberg. But listening is not about acting. “It’s about us, our future and that of future generations. But science and the voices of our young generation are not at the center of the debate. But they have to.”
She cited the IPCCC report that industrialized countries will soon have to redirect to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. “At some point, people die because of climate change,” warned Thunberg. It counts every tenth of a degree of global temperature. She warned against hoping for the not yet fully developed technology that will one day be able to suck CO₂ from the atmosphere.
Thunberg said all of this at the event in Davos, where she participated in a panel with three other young people: the rights activist Natasha Mwansa from Zambia, the water activist Autumn Peltier, who is a member of the North American Wikwemikong First Nation, and Salvador Gómez- Colón, who organized aid in 2017 when Hurricane Maria hit his home country of Puerto Rico. The panel was moderated by Edward Felsenthal, editor-in-chief of the Time magazine, which Thunberg has named Person of the Year 2019.
Global challenges will be discussed again at the World Economic Forum until Friday, this time the focus is on the climate crisis. At 1 p.m. Thunberg will speak again in more detail. Climate change and its devastating consequences should be the central theme of the 3,000-strong congress, which takes place under strong security precautions. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and around 50 other heads of state and government are also expected to attend the four-day forum in the Alpine village. Left-wing groups and environmentalists called for protests against the forum, climate-damaging production methods and consumption as well as the excesses of capitalism.
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