Climate emergency calls for new priorities


"As we observe climate-related catastrophes across the country and around the world, many of us feel powerless at a time when 11,000 scientists from 150 countries have warned us that “untold suffering is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions,” according to a statement the scientists published last month in the journal BioScience.

Scientists and world leaders tell us we have just 11 years to make the needed major changes before experiencing irreparable devastating consequences. Despite these urgent warnings, our president is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement as most of the rest of the world’s countries prepare to gather in Madrid from Dec. 1-13 to work on implementation of that agreement."   ～Ilze Petersons @bangordailynews
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