Beau on Greta’s speech of a year ago:
The relevancy of that message operates just like the Doomsday Clock. Every day that passes without proactive action against climate change is one more tic of that biological clock towards the point of no return. Then there will be no more warnings, no more moving speeches, nowhere to run and hide.
Instead, we will be the first sentient species on Earth to have earned the dubious distinction of watching ourselves become extinct for reasons that we are not only responsible for but which ourselves predicted decades in advance. You cannot assign blame for our doom on any particular country or region, because this coming catastrophe carries communal blame, for acts of commission and omission.
But though we stand on the precipice, we’ve yet to step over it. You know what you must do; it’s been talked about for ages. And you still have time to act.
But not much.…
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