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Narrative must shift from one of individual responsibility, to one of the governmental and corporate accountability. john sutter joins me now. thanks so much for being here. i read your op-ed with such interesting, and strangely freeing, to be honest. i've been recycling and composting my heart out. i have bought an electric car. my family and i have cut out virtually all red meat, and yet these climate catastrophes keeping happen. so, your point is we can do as much as we can individually. but that's not really the root of the problem they do connect is to this crisis.

Governments for not acting faster. >> john, very quickly, what is the one thing we all can do that would make a difference? >> i would sigh get involved in the political process push to things like clean energy standards, getting countries off of fossil fuels, and requires a shift to cleaner renewables which are safer for public health, don't heat up the planet. like sort of big make roe level changes are what is needed in or to maybe the polluting expensive and incentivize companies to do that. >> john sutter, thank you very much. everybody should check out your op-ed at cnn.com. thank you. >...

Contained, and some evacuation orders are being eased. but from catastrophic fires to footing, to hurricane ida, all part of a climate crisis that's prompt the over 230 leading medical journals to issue a statement. the editors of the journals warn, quote, rises above 1.5 celsius reaching the chance of reaching tipping points in natural systems that could lock the world for an acutely unstable state. we call for action. that call for governments to act is being echoed in a new cnn contributor piece from john sutter. he says, stop blaming yourself for the climbed crisis. sutter warns, quote, th...

Carbon neutral by mid century but we have the technology and wherewithal to do that and i think that if anything good can come out of these storms, then i don't think there's much that is, i think it's the realization that we're out of time to deal with this. we have to make some major changes yesterday, and we do have the ability and technology to do that and i hope that people can hold on to that hope and realize that any of those changes that we make, make all of these events less risky, especially over time. >> that's a powerful statement right there. you said there is some hope. we do hav...

In fact, take a look at this. from climate central showing the increasing number of what are called excessive rainfall events. in other words, high one-day amounts. it's going up year by year and that's not good news, fred. not just here in the united states but globally. >> gene norman, thank you so much for that view. let's talk further. joining me now to discuss, john sutter, baseline documentary series that focuses on the world's climate crisis. john, so good to see you. explain how climate change has evolved over time. >> yeah, i mean, i think it's kind of helpful to take a long view of t...