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The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the state of the climate emergency out Monday was declared “a code red for humanity.”
While the terrifying report finds that human activity has already caused warming beyond anything we’ve seen in thousands of years, the most important message of this report is that we still have time to stave off the most catastrophic effects of global warming — if we act quickly and boldly.
But that won’t happen until we treat the climate emergency as front-page news every day, not just the when a blockbuster UN study hits. That’s what we do every single day.
Please help support Common Dreams and the daily climate-focused news coverage the planet needs. It's never been more urgent.
If you’re a regular reader of Common Dreams, very little in the IPCC report will come as a shock. But that doesn’t make its findings any less profound.
Understanding and acknowledging the reality of the climate crisis — and identifying its main culprits — has been one of our driving efforts as journalists over the last two decades.
But now the urgent work for all of us is to focus every ounce of our energy on solving this planetary emergency — and that means our work has only just begun. This is why we must see a Global Green New Deal come to pass, and why visions for a more sustainable and livable world must give way to the actual building of that world.
That won’t happen without progressive, independent media like Common Dreams sounding the alarm every single day.
P.S. Please help support Common Dreams and the daily climate-focused news coverage the planet needs. It’s never been more urgent.
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