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New UN Climate Panel Report:

This Criminal System Is Destroying Our Planet!     

by Orpheus Reed

 

 

Wading through stagnant rainwater in search of drinking water after a week of deadly storms in the Bay of Bengal
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2006. Wading through stagnant rainwater in search of drinking water after a week of deadly storms in the Bay of Bengal. AP photo
On March 31 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the dangers of climate change, "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability." This IPCC report is the second piece of its current report-the fifth assessment report published over the last 25 years.

 

With each report, the warnings of this panel get more alarming, the dangers clearer and the stakes higher. The 2014 report establishes that climate science as a whole has concluded that climate change is not a far off, abstract danger but is already impacting "natural and human systems on all continents and across the ocean." The negative effects of climate change are hitting especially hard at the poor people and poor countries on this planet, who have done the least to cause the problem. It makes very clear that unless there are dramatic changes that happen very soon, there will be devastating and possibly even catastrophic impacts on the natural world and on human life from the warming of the planet and climate change.  

 

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The Human Costs of Climate Change

 

Past reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have focused on the negative effects of climate change on the Earth and the natural world. One of the key "take home messages" from the latest IPCC report is the immense impact of climate change on human beings-now and even more so in the coming decades. As we emphasized in the special issue of Revolution, State of EMERGENCY! The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution, the health, well-being, and even continued existence of humanity is linked to and dependent on healthy, vibrant, and intact natural ecosystems....

 

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Climate Change and Changing the Whole Political Atmosphere

 

This is a moment when if you have your eyes open to the world, the stark reality of the wanton destruction of the planet stands out as so big, so criminal, so outrageously dangerous, that you just want to scream. This is a moment, a month, to reach out broadly with the full vision and understanding of the system that underlies all the problems humanity faces, and the liberating way forward and to find the ways to involve them in the BA Everywhere Campaign.

 

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