The years between 2010 and 2020 were the decade when Climate Change came and slapped us firmly in the face and proved to be no longer a problem for future generations but one that’s already here.
Although the science is now beyond debate that humans have and are still, stinking up the planet, we don't seem to have done much over the last ten years to stop the looming disaster.
In 2010, the Carbon Dioxide parts per million in the atmosphere was 390 ppm, today it is 412 ppm, the highest levels since before Homo Sapiens walked the earth.
Extreme events are really starting to impact the Planet with hotter and longer heat waves, larger hurricanes, more floods, longer droughts and apocalyptic wildfires and a decade ago there was already more than enough evidence to justify an almighty effort to cut emissions and no rational person could deny it, problem was some with a vested interest, and the useful idiots primarily on the
right wing of politics, did try to deny it.
Thanks to the Greta Thunberg's of the world, we’re now pretty much all on board with the fact that climate change is real and urgent and the dissenting voices are treated with the ridicule they deserve.
We know that we are running out of time to save the planet, and that huge changes are desperately needed and global policymakers need to find a solution quick.
2019 marks the close of the hottest decade on the records and was the decade that most people began joining the dots and saw a dawning of awareness that climate change is actually starting to harm people.
We are locked into a rise of 1.5C, that is going to happen as it is too late to do anything about it and that will be devastating, consider the pain now and that is before we even reach 1.5C, but if anything, the penny seemed to have dropped in the last decade that everything else pales in comparison to what we have done to the Planet we all live on and how we have to now stop a disaster becoming a full on catastrophe.
We can't afford another decade of thinking about what we must do, the science is settled and the next 10 years has to be the time for action.
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It was the last decade where it finally began to hit home though and it won’t be getting any better anytime soon
Many of us have been saying this sort of things since the 80s and before but now we just say told you so.
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