“This really is a global fight, and justice is very much at its heart.”īuilding up renewable energy supplies could also defray geopolitical conflicts, since fossil fuels drive many international conflicts and create political instability, McKibben said. “The level of unfairness that represents is just incredible,” he said. The continent produces just 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Those catastrophic climate effects are out of scale with Africa’s contribution to the problem, he noted. “Mother Nature is now doing her best to reinforce that message all the time.” “We have successfully shifted the zeitgeist” of public opinion, he said, noting that increasingly severe storms, heat and wildfires continue to make that case. The good news, McKibben said, is that most Americans now accept long-established scientific research demonstrating that the Earth is warming due to fossil fuel combustion, after decades of misinformation sought to cast doubt on those facts. We obviously are not going to stop global warming, but stopping it from cutting civilization off at the knees is our job.” “We don’t know what the outcome of that race will be. He made a similar pitch in a virtual talk with San Diego 350 and the North County Climate Change Alliance last week. McKibben‘s books - including “The End of Nature” - argue that protecting the environment is both urgent and possible. Now they must be persuaded to act on it, but they may be surprised by how quickly major progress can be made, environmental author Bill McKibben says. Most Americans understand that climate change is happening.
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