The carbon tunnel vision path is not going to stop catastrophic climate change. Even if we were to achieve net zero by the end of the decade (impossible), carbon dioxide will still pass 500 ppm, the ocean pH will drop below pH 7.95, and the marine life support system for the planet will crash. In parallel, you have toxic chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon destroying most life on the planet. Over the next 20 years, there will be less than 90% of all nature on land and marine life in the oceans remaining as compared to 1970. Humanity is part of nature, and we cannot survive on earth without the life support system for the planet. It’s madness to continue to pollute the planet and destroy nature for short term gains.
According to an international report by Bernard et al. 2021, most mainstream attention and investment are directed towards mitigating and adapting to climate change. Even if this narrow intervention is successful, it will not resolve the meta-crisis of ecological overshoot; in fact, with many of the current resource-intensive interventions, it is likely to make matters worse.
The current climate change strategy adopted by most Governments around the world is destined for failure and to accelerate the problem. We need to focus on the regeneration of nature and ecosystems; we must eliminate toxic chemicals, plastics, and carbon particles from getting into the environment. 80% of the world has no wastewater treatment, this must stop.
We must have a hypocritical oath to do no harm to nature, but even this will not be sufficient because we are too late, to just do no harm is not enough, we must be nature positive and start to do some good.
Bernard et al. 2021, report https://lnkd.in/ejV98Q7t
Bioclimatic factors regulate climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
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