As the implications of climate change become starker and the world faces up to a biodiversity crisis that threatens humanity’s existence, a group of campaigners from across the world are saying there is one clear way to get us out of this mess, but that governments are ignoring it.
In an open letter published in the British newspaper The Guardian, the group tells governments that the best and cheapest way to avert a climate catastrophe is to heal nature by restoring and replanting degraded forests and by better conserving the natural world.
“Defending the living world and defending the climate are, in many cases, one and the same. This potential has so far been largely overlooked,” say the 23 signatories to the letter.
“We call on governments to support natural climate solutions with an urgent programme of research, funding and political commitment,” they added.
Plantagenet wrote:Congrats to the world. We just blew past 415 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time ever.
EdwinSm wrote:Plantagenet wrote:Congrats to the world. We just blew past 415 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time ever.
Not the best news to hear on Mothers Day. Poor Mother Earth how we love her in words and poetry but despise her in our actions.
GHung wrote:Yikes!
Burn it. Burn it all.
GHung wrote:Yikes!
Burn it. Burn it all.
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