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European floods 2021 - act immediately to reverse global warming

8/11/2021

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By Adrian Whitehead

So sorry to hear about the floods in Europe. Best wishes to all those affected and condolences to those who lost loved ones and friends. 


Similar floods in 2002 followed by the European heat wave in 200, triggered the start of my climate campaigning.

​What was obvious back in 2003 was if we didn't want these events to occur with increasing frequency and severity, we needed to cool the planet immediately. Our slogan back then was Zero Emissions Now. 


Eighteen years later the world is planning for 30-50+ years of increasing devastation through the adoption of the suicidal target of net zero emissions by 2050. Net Zero won't even stop the heating because of the degradation of natural systems that are also now heating the planet (loss of carbon from soil, forests, methane from former permafrost, loss of the summer Arctic ice etc).  

This 2050 target is immoral, unethical, and to be blunt, a crime against humanity. 

Society as we know it will collapse if we do not do better. What we need now is an emergency speed program with three key foci: 
  1. reduce our emissions to near zero in under 10 years
  2. simultaneously instigating a massive program to drawdown past emission 
  3. a program to immediately cool the planet (eg by reflecting solar radiation). 

​We call this Emergency Mobilisation.

Our ecology is already collapsing, the collapse of our societies has started, global food production will be pushed to the point where there is not enough food to feed the world. The world's poor will starve and suffer first. 

This future is not set in stone, but to avoid it we must take on our existing politicians and their corporate backers. Our current politicians have shown again and again they are not mentally equipped to deal effectively with the climate emergency.  

If you are in Australia and want to play a part in saving us all please join us at voteplanet.net and help us at the next federal election - this election is one of our last chances to make a real difference and avoid the warming levels that will push us to collapse.
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