
Despite these changes, most governments are dealing with this global climate catastrophe with short term measures. To really address this crisis, we need a long-term approach. Of course, as I study this subject more and more, I realise that there’s nothing new here.
In 1972, the first report of the Club of Rome, showed that economic growth according to the current model would lead to a sharp drop in the global population by 2100 due to pollution, scarcity of energy resources and impoverished arable lands.
For more than 30 years, the annual reports of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change and the Paris Agreement in 2015 have alerted us to the acceleration of global warming and the dramatic ecological, social and economic threat it poses. Including the destruction of biodiversity, and degradation of the oceans. Despite this the response has been fairly ineffective and the challenge of balancing short-term interests of finance and long-term interests of the environment has yet to be resolved. The question of how to develop a new energy model without reducing the quality and standard of living for everyone without the highest price being paid by the poorest is the key question?
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