Part Five / What We Must Do Now

5.1 The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves

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  1. ‘limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ‘Summary for policymakers’, in Global Warming of 1.5°C: An IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-industrial Levels and Related Global Greenhouse Gas Emission Pathways, in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/.

  2. one hundred companies are responsible for 70 per cent of the world’s emissions Griffin, Paul, The Carbon Majors Database: CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, CDP and Climate Accountability Institute, June 2017, https://climateaccountability.org/pdf/CarbonMajorsRpt2017%20Jul17.pdf.

  3. ‘Winning slowly is the same thing as losing’ Steffen, A., ‘Winning slowly is the same thing as losing’, Twitter, 12 September 2017, https://twitter.com/alexsteffen/status/907460481769725955?lang=en.