Things are not looking good.
officials with the international body say they're sounding the alarm bells before it's finally too late.
"Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said when announcing the latest IPCC report. "Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once.
They even put a numerical value on it: if the world warms more than 1.5 degrees Celsius/2.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the next decade, all hell may well break loose. If our leaders can't, don't, or refuse to reach these goals, the consequences will, as the report warns, be dire: water shortages will become widespread as heatwaves and droughts become more common and longer; there will be massive famine; and infectious disease rates will skyrocket.In addition to the zero emissions targets, the UN has set what will likely be an even more unlikely goal: for rich countries to stop using coal by 2030, and for poorer ones to do so by 2040.
"The [choices] we make now and in the next few years will reverberate around the world for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years," Lee added — and we can't lie, that's a pretty scary thought.
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