For Climate Action
Climate change and the rapid destruction of biodiversity pose existential threats to the functioning of human society. Our current linear economy and resource use exceeds the earth’s carrying capacity and is fundamentally unsustainable.
The Paris Agreement launched an historic global effort to keep the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave us a 12-year deadline to curb emissions and transition off fossil fuels. This requires rapid transcalar coordination to transform our energy and infrastructure systems.
Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How do we get there?
Between the Copenhagen and Paris climate conferences, the number of billionaires with interests in fossil fuel activities has risen from 54 in 2010 to 88 in 2015. Their combined personal fortunes have expanded by around 50% from over $200bn to more than $300bn.
Resources
Wallace-Wells, D. (2017, July 14). The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html
UN e-Courses https://unccelearn.org/course/
Introductory Course on Climate Change
Cities and Climate Change
Alex Steffen The Last Decade: A Raw Manifesto for the New Climate Movement https://thenearlynow.com/the-last-decade-and-you-489a5375fbe8
Eric Holthaus The Science of self-care: How climate researchers are coping with the U.N. report
Simon, K. M. P., Matt. (2018, November 13). The WIRED Guide to Climate Change. Wired. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/story/guide-climate-change/
Levin, K., & Light, A. (2018, November 25). National Climate Assessment: U.S. Climate Action Can Avoid Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Hundreds of Billions in Damages Annually | World Resources Institute. https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/11/national-climate-assessment-us-climate-action-can-avoid-tens-thousands-deaths-hundreds
Documentaries:
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
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How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)
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Before the Flood (2016)