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Week 41 #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrikeOnline & Day 272 #SaveCongoRainforest. In 1992, 1,575 scientists penned a "World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity" asking people to take immediate action to stop environmental degradation that threatens life on this planet. (1/4)
Since then we have emitted nearly 14 billion more tons of CO2, raised the temperature of the Earth by nearly a degree, causing the deaths of around 150000 people in the past decades from climate change, and have affected the lives of millions from severe disasters that are (2/4)
worsened by the climate crisis. 25 years after that 1992 warning, 15K scientists issued a second warning to Humanity, stating that "To prevent widespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity loss, humanity must practice a more environmentally sustainable alternative to (3/4)
business as usual. This prescription was well articulated by the [world's scientists] 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning... We must recognize, in our [daily] lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home."
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![business as usual. This prescription was well articulated by the [world's scientists] 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning... We must recognize, in our [daily] lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EphT13cXMAESA5O.png "business as usual. This prescription was well articulated by the [world's scientists] 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning... We must recognize, in our [daily] lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.\"")
![business as usual. This prescription was well articulated by the [world's scientists] 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning... We must recognize, in our [daily] lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EphT2zBXUAAHbYD.jpg "business as usual. This prescription was well articulated by the [world's scientists] 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning... We must recognize, in our [daily] lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.\"")
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woops, forgot sources ;-;
source 1: Ripple, William J., et al. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice.” BioScience, vol. 67, no. 12, 2017, pp. 1026–1028., doi:10.1093/biosci/bix125. Supplemental File S1 and S2
source 1: Ripple, William J., et al. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice.” BioScience, vol. 67, no. 12, 2017, pp. 1026–1028., doi:10.1093/biosci/bix125. Supplemental File S1 and S2
source 2: Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2017) - "CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions". Published online at http://OurWorldInData.org . Retrieved from: ' https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions' [Online Resource]
source 3: Hannah Ritchie (2014) - "Natural Disasters". Published online at http://OurWorldInData.org . Retrieved from: ' https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters' [Online Resource]
source 4: Walton, Dan, and Maarten van Aalst. “Climate-Related Extreme Weather Events and COVID-19: A First Look at the Number of People Affected by Intersecting Disasters - World.” ReliefWeb, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, >>
>> 23 Sept. 2020, http://reliefweb.int/report/world/climate-related-extreme-weather-events-and-covid-19-first-look-number-people-affected.
source 5: Xu, Yangyang, et al. “Global Warming Will Happen Faster than We Think.” Nature, vol. 564, no. 7734, 5 Dec. 2018, pp. 30–32., doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07586-5.
source 6: The Science Connecting Extreme Weather to Climate Change: Appendix A: List of Climate Attribution Studies, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2018. Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/climateattribution. PDF Download.
source 7: McMichael, A. J., Haines, A., Slooff, R. & Kovats, S. (eds) Climate Change and Human Health (The World Health Organization, Geneva, 1996)
