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Today's story of the day by Climate correspondent @EricHolthaus could become our collective story of the decade – if we decide here and now that we want it to be.
In 2030 we ended the climate emergency. Here's how: +
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Today's story of the day by Climate correspondent @EricHolthaus could become our collective story of the decade – if we decide here and now that we want it to be.
In 2030 we ended the climate emergency. Here's how: +
thecorrespondent.com/214/in-2030-we…
Storytelling has the power to change the course of history. If there's one story that desperately needs a new ending, it's the #climateemergency.
Last year @EricHolthaus asked:
"What absolutely must change in the next 10 years?"
Here's your vision:
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Last year @EricHolthaus asked:
"What absolutely must change in the next 10 years?"
Here's your vision:
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In 2020 the most urgent thing we can do is passionately tell others that the #climateemergency exists:
– #Climatestrikes will escalate catalysing urgent revolutionary policy to tackle the #climatecrisis
– We'll finally realise that saving the earth means saving ourselves
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– #Climatestrikes will escalate catalysing urgent revolutionary policy to tackle the #climatecrisis
– We'll finally realise that saving the earth means saving ourselves
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In 2021 there'll be mounting pressure for more ambitious climate laws:
– A new US president will pass a series of legislative changes to bring about a #GreenNewDeal to decentralise political power from the extractive industries that have concentrated wealth for centuries
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– A new US president will pass a series of legislative changes to bring about a #GreenNewDeal to decentralise political power from the extractive industries that have concentrated wealth for centuries
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2022 is the year "#climateaction" will just become "#action":
– We'll begin climate reparations and start the process of decentralising political power on a global scale
– We'll reach #peakglobalemissions and stop accelerating towards our own destruction
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– We'll begin climate reparations and start the process of decentralising political power on a global scale
– We'll reach #peakglobalemissions and stop accelerating towards our own destruction
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In 2023 we'll criminalise and delegitimise the fossil fuel industry:
– Fossil fuel execs will be tried for crimes against humanity
– #Ecocide tribunals will hold #climatecriminals to account
We've lost so much, but there's *so* much left to fight for.
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– Fossil fuel execs will be tried for crimes against humanity
– #Ecocide tribunals will hold #climatecriminals to account
We've lost so much, but there's *so* much left to fight for.
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2024 will be the first year in history that we will be doing enough to slow the #climateemergency:
– We'll electrify everything and focus on alternative greenhouse gases
– We'll listen to the wisdom of farmers and radically reform agriculture
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– We'll electrify everything and focus on alternative greenhouse gases
– We'll listen to the wisdom of farmers and radically reform agriculture
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We're halfway through the decade now, and we realise living a good life was always the point:
– We reclaim our cities from cars and design our urban areas for slow movement, because we'll embrace moving slowly
– We let go of individualism and talk to each other again
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– We reclaim our cities from cars and design our urban areas for slow movement, because we'll embrace moving slowly
– We let go of individualism and talk to each other again
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2026 is the year we redefine what we mean by technology:
– We swap gadgets for connection
– We swap virtual reality for reality
We will reinterpret what it means to be a part of a thriving global civilisation in the middle of the most transcendent decade in human history.
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– We swap gadgets for connection
– We swap virtual reality for reality
We will reinterpret what it means to be a part of a thriving global civilisation in the middle of the most transcendent decade in human history.
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In 2027 we will expand our practice of regenerative agriculture:
– We'll return to sustainable techniques were nature thrives, such as intercropping
– We'll relearn what we've forgotten and build a #circulareconomy this year
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– We'll return to sustainable techniques were nature thrives, such as intercropping
– We'll relearn what we've forgotten and build a #circulareconomy this year
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Now in 2028, we abandon our profit-at-all-cost mentality and value life over production:
– We'll separate our worth from how much we can produce for people who are already rich
– We'll provide for everyone and recalibrate the economy to care for people and our planet's needs
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– We'll separate our worth from how much we can produce for people who are already rich
– We'll provide for everyone and recalibrate the economy to care for people and our planet's needs
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As the decade draws to a close, we will celebrate that our efforts have cut emissions in half globally over the past 10 years:
– We've remade what it looks and feels like to be alive
– We realise that change starts with changing how we see how each of us fit into the world
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– We've remade what it looks and feels like to be alive
– We realise that change starts with changing how we see how each of us fit into the world
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Perhaps the most radical change this decade will be our newfound ability to tell a positive story about the future – and mean it.
That is what we have to do now in the first days of 2020, writes @EricHolthaus. Dream unashamedly big dreams.
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That is what we have to do now in the first days of 2020, writes @EricHolthaus. Dream unashamedly big dreams.
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By putting our dreams for the decade to paper, we can start working to make them a reality.
This is one vision, one way forward. But there are infinite others.
What do you imagine success on climate change will look and feel like in this decade?
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This is one vision, one way forward. But there are infinite others.
What do you imagine success on climate change will look and feel like in this decade?
End.
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