Prisoner Of Hope Comments

We cannot have Sustainable Development Goals unless they stay within the climate boundary of bringing us on a pathway to stable 02°C of global warning by pre-industrial standards, climate change denial's like continuing smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, nonchalantly ignoring its health outcome doesn't keep the doctor away, much less the oncologist treating dreadful terminal cancer.

Climate change's having huge negative impacts on human rights, but there's also an opportunity side. Since we're undermining the livelihoods of the poorest people, their food security through climate shocks, through the rainy seasons not coming, through long periods of drought and flash flooding, which is happening all over Africa and South Asia: rising sea levels, we should prioritize the poorest in access to clean energy, and if they get clean energy, they'll become productive, they'll largely bring themselves out of the terrible poverty that we're making worse.
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