Stockholm:
A draft UN report on a warming planet unveiled by AFP will permit the world to “face the reality” of climate transform, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg stated on Wednesday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change draft projects how species extinction, spreading illness, fatal heat waves, ecosystem collapse, increasing seas and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating.
“It confirms what we already knew, that this situation is very dire and that we need to act right now,” Thunberg told AFP.
But she added that she located it hopeful that “many people are becoming more and more ready to tell it like it is”.
The draft, seen exclusively by AFP, says the impacts of climate transform will turn into painfully clear prior to a kid born today turns 30.
Many unsafe thresholds are closer than when believed, and serious consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the brief term.
“We can of course not face this crisis unless… we are adult enough to tell the truth, and to face the reality,” Thunberg stated.
The 18-year-old Swede, who spearheaded the “Fridays for Future” movement and youth climate strikes that swept the world, stated the “eye-opening” report was preferable to false reassurances.
“The worst thing is that when people don’t want to talk about the climate crisis… they try to smooth things over. Try to make it sound more attractive,” she stated.
It was significant to assure the message is not “that things will be fine, ‘don’t worry’… when that in fact is not true.”
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