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2020 brought the climate crisis to a tipping point
We face worsening climate and biodiversity crises, and new pandemics could emerge if we don’t address environmental causes By David Suzuki
Bush fires raged in Australia from September 2019 to March 2020.
This is our last column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front – record-breaking global temperature increases, the U.S. backtracking on ecological protections and policies and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, a worsening biodiversity crisis and more – the world was hit with a devastating pandemic. We’ve been brought to a tipping point.
by David Suzuki on December 16th, 2020 at 2:37 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1
This is our last column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front record-breaking global temperature increases, the U.S. backtracking on ecological protections and policies and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, a worsening biodiversity crisis and more the world was hit with a devastating pandemic. We’ve been brought to a tipping point.
A common thread through it all is the dangerous politicization, and often outright dismissal, of science.
Those who reject and protest the simple steps needed to stem the spread of COVID-19 have contributed to ensuring those measures must be strengthened and kept in place longer than they might have just as those who have cast doubt on climate science have ensured that resolving that crisis will be costlier and more painful than it could have been had we acted quickly and decisively.
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