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Monday: January 11:
2021 || ά. The
process of recovery
from the coronavirus
pandemic offers the
chance to change
course and put
humanity on a path
on which it is not
in conflict with
nature, the United
Nations
Secretary-General Mr
António Guterres
said on Monday,
urging greater
efforts by everyone
to protect
bio-diversity and
step up climate
action. Addressing
world leaders at the
One Planet Summit,
Mr Guterres outlined
the consequences of
abusing Earth and
its resources.
“We have been
poisoning air, land
and water and
filling oceans with
plastics. Now,
nature is striking
back: temperatures
are reaching record
highs, bio-diversity
is collapsing,
deserts are
spreading and fires,
floods and
hurricanes are more
frequent and
extreme.” he said.
‘’We are extremely
fragile.’’ Combined
with the devastating
effects of COVID-19
and its
socio-economic
fallout, he reminded
everyone that ‘as we
rebuild, we can not
revert to the old
normal’. “Pandemic
recovery is our
chance to change
course. With smart
policies and the
right investments,
we can chart a path,
that brings health
to all, revives
economies and builds
resilience and
rescues
bio-diversity.
Everyone must
do much more.’’
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The Safe
Climate
Declaration
From the
National
Climate
Emergency
Summit 2020:
Influential
Global
Leaders
Including
Political
Corporate
Media and
Financial
Leaders Have
Deliberately
Refused to
Accept the
Overwhelming
Scientific
Consensus on
Climate
Change and
Its Risks
Using
Predatory
Delay to
Prolong an
Unsustainable
Economic
System:
Driven by
Perverse
Short-Term
Incentives
and Lacking
the
Imagination
to
Understand
the
Implications
They Have
Placed
Humanity in
Extreme
Jeopardy
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This Is the Only Mother We Have on This Entire Universana: Save
Mother Earth |
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Tuesday: February 18: 2020 || ά.
A Safe Climate Declaration has been initiated at
the National Climate
Emergency Summit
2020, that took
place on February
14-15. This
Declaration calls
for a new approach
to climate action in
Australia, a
response to match
the scale of the
threat as
climate-warming
impacts escalate
across Australia and
around the world.
Climate Impact:
Australia’s 2019-20
megafires are a
harbinger of life
and death on a
hotter Earth. The
climate is already
dangerous, in
Australia and the
Antarctic, in Asia
and the Pacific,
right around the
world. The Earth is
unacceptably too hot
now. The impacts of
climate disruption
are more severe than
previously
projected. At 01.5°C
warming relative to
pre-industrial
levels, now likely
only a decade away,
the Great Barrier
Reef will be lost,
sea levels will be
heading for a rise
of many metres and
tipping points will
be at hand for
Greenland and for
the Amazon and other
carbon stores.
The current Paris
Agreement emission
reduction
commitments, if,
implemented, are a
path to 03.5°C
warming by 2100,
possibly earlier.
This could increase
to 04-05°C when
long-term
climate-system
feedbacks are
considered.
National security
analysts warn that
03°C may result in
‘outright social
chaos’ and 04°C is
considered
incompatible with
the maintenance of
human civilisation.
Leading scientists
warn of a ‘Hot House
Earth’ scenario, a
planetary threshold,
that, may, exist at
a temperature rise
as low as 02°C, in
which further
warming becomes
self-sustaining. The
challenge now is to
return to a safe
climate by cooling
the Earth whilst
avoiding tipping
points, which, may,
initiate further
warming. This
requires an
emergency response,
where climate is a
primary concern of
leadership at all
levels.
Failure of
Leadership:
Influential global
leaders, including,
political,
corporate, media and
financial leaders
have deliberately
refused to accept
the overwhelming
scientific consensus
on climate change
and its risks, using
predatory delay to
prolong an
unsustainable
economic system.
Driven by perverse
short-term
incentives and
lacking the
imagination to
understand the
implications, they
have placed humanity
in extreme jeopardy.
Many of Australia’s
leaders are,
particularly,
culpable, having
done everything
possible over the
last three decades
to prevent the
development of
serious climate
change policy,
internationally and
domestically and to
protect the fossil
fuel industry.
Notwithstanding the
fact that Australia
is the world’s
fourth largest
carbon polluter,
exports included and
one of the countries
most exposed to
climate change.
The first duty of a
government is to
protect the people,
their well-being and
livelihoods.
Instead, Australian
governments have
left the community
largely unprepared
for the disasters
now unfolding and
for the extensive
changes, required to
maintain a cohesive
society as climate
change impacts
escalate.
Strengthening
Democracy: In
framing solutions to
the climate
emergency, a
stronger democracy
is needed, not
weaker. The rights
of citizens need to
be protected to
ensure that people
are treated with
respect and treated
fairly.
Climate change and
its solutions will
have profound
implications for
Australia, its
peoples and its
lands and waters. It
is, therefore,
critical to achieve
and secure truly
meaningful
processes, that
empower indigenous
voices, leadership
and knowledge.
Addressing the
Climate Threat:
Australians
collectively have a
duty of care to
protect people,
nature and
civilisation, both
locally and
globally. Calls to
contribute to
solutions to the
climate threat need
to be fair, taking
account of people’s
capacity.
Climate change is a
global problem,
requiring
unprecedented levels
of global
co-operation. It,
obviously, can not
be solved by
Australian acting
alone but, Australia
must be fully
committed to such
co-operation.
Priorities for
Action Include:
::: Cutting
greenhouse gas
emissions rapidly to
zero. All fossil
fuel expansion to be
stopped immediately;
policies, which
encourage fossil
fuel use, halted and
subsidies removed;
and the existing
industry wound down
rapidly with
adjustment
programmes for
frontline
communities.
Strategies to
minimise methane
emissions need to be
implemented
urgently.
::: Drawing down
atmospheric carbon
concentrations to a
safe level from the
current 413 ppm
level through
actions, that
include redesigning
agricultural and
forestry practices
and implementing
extensive soil,
estuarine and ocean
carbon
sequestration.
::: Working to
prevent tipping
points and damage
while the zero
emission and
drawdown goals are
being achieved.
::: Integrating
adaptation and
resilience measures
into the economic
restructuring needed
to restore a safe
climate and repair
ecosystems.
::: Early action is
essential. The
prevalent idea of a
gradual transition
to net zero
emissions by 2050 is
not tenable. A far
faster transition is
required, using
measures appropriate
to an existential
threat.
::: Climate change
must be accepted as
an overriding threat
to national and
human security, with
the response being
the highest priority
at national and
global levels.
Call to Action For
Australia: It is in
Australia’s
self-interest to
demand far greater
global action on
climate change and
to lead by acting
itself. It makes no
sense to build our
economy on fossil
fuel resources,
practices and
technologies, which
are unsustainable,
particularly, when
Australia has some
of the best clean
energy resources and
opportunities in the
world.
This requires
leadership, which
understands the
challenge and the
opportunities and is
totally committed to
accelerating the
emergency transition
to a safe climate
economy. This will
not happen with
leaders, who do not,
even, accept climate
change as a
priority.
The signatories to
this Declaration
call on all
Australians to join
with them in
building leadership,
that embraces the
need for such
emergency action.
In particular, we
will:
::: Emphasise the
importance of a
non-partisan
approach, that
embraces people of
all political
parties and sectors
of society, who are
committed to
science-based
policies, that make
climate a first
priority of
government and of
the community;
::: Emphasise the
value of a
non-partisan
government of
national unity on
climate;
::: Hold current
political leaders to
account, if, they
fail to protect the
Australian people;
::: Take action to
empower Indigenous
voices and
leadership;
:::Take action to
strengthen democracy
and citizen rights;
::: Give priority to
engaging with the
business community
to build
understanding of the
real nature of the
risks and the pace
of change required;
::: Work to mobilise
and connect all
sectors of civil
society to make a
powerful
contribution;
::: Work to
reinvigorate public
administration and
governance skilled
and willing to drive
the political and
economic transition;
::: Advocate
tirelessly in public
to build
understanding and
community capacity
to drive change;
::: Support the
formation of a
specialist taskforce
to set out a road
map for Australia’s
emergency transition
to restore a safe
climate.
Some of the
initiating
signatories of this
Declaration are Dr
Kerryn Phelps, Dr
John Hewson, Mr
Peter Garrett, Dr
Carmen Lawrence, Mr
Ian Dunlop and
Reverend Tim
Costello.
The signatories
invite everyone to
support this
Declaration by
singing on
this link:
climateemergencysummit.org/declaration
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Climate
Change and
Global
Warming: The
European
Parliament
Declares
Climate and
Environmental
Emergency:
Having Done
That the
Parliament
Has
Effectively
Called on
the World to
Take the
Imperative
Side on the
Question of
Continued
Existence of
the Web and
Ecology of
Life and
Humanity on
Earth:
Emergency
Does Not
Quite Grasp
the
Seriousness
of What
Humanity
Faces: We
Are Facing
and Headed
Towards
Extinction
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