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Name: The Future We Choose
Rating: 4.2 (200 reviews)
Author: Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

Surviving the Climate Crisis

4.2 (200 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Be inspired to choose a sustainable future.

Today, in 2020, we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis. Planet Earth is heating up, and we’re running out of time before we reach the point of no return.

Not all of us witness the direct effects of climate change on a daily basis, but most of us are aware that the world today is quite different to how it was just a few decades ago: there are fewer species of wildlife, the seasons are warmer, and forests everywhere are burning.

The next ten years are absolutely critical if we want a fighting chance of saving humanity from the worst effects of climate breakdown. By 2030, we must reduce our emissions by at least 50 percent. And by 2050, we must be at net-zero – meaning we don’t release more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the earth can naturally absorb.

There are only two choices: do something or do nothing. Whichever path we take, our actions will impact us and all generations to come. We must act now.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

just how hot our world could get by 2050;
how to stop thinking of life as a zero-sum game; and
why non-violent protests are so important.

Unless we act now, we are on the path to an unlivable world.

Picture this. It’s morning, and you wake up and check your phone. You do this every day, not to respond to your text messages, but to read the air quality report and see if it’s safe to go outside. Through the window, you can see it’s a clear, sunny day, but your app tells you that air pollution and ozone levels are high. You will have to wear your specially designed face mask at all times.

You’ll also have to cope with the intense heat. The world is much hotter now than it was when you were young, and there’s no longer anything that can be done to change that.

The year is 2050. In another 50 years, many areas of the planet are likely to be uninhabitable.

The key message here is: Unless we act now, we are on the path to an unlivable world.

We’ll end up living in this hypothetical world even if we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius. In other words, this is our future, regardless of whether we achieve the main target of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. And once we reach a point where we can no longer control the warming, other tipping points follow.

The melting of the Arctic ice sheets is one of the most critical. Since this white ice is responsible for reflecting large amounts of the sun’s heat away from earth, its melting proves utterly disastrous. Sea levels rise, and without the ice, we are now even more defenseless against hotter and hotter temperatures.

The rising seas also bring major flooding. Coastal cities across the globe have their infrastructure devastated, and while they flood, inland areas dry up. Heatwaves create deserts out of once-lush areas, and many places can no longer support any form of life.

Extreme weather events, like hurricanes and tropical storms, are also more common than ever. The resulting destruction kills or displaces millions of people and creates a massive refugee crisis.

Even the surviving cities aren’t exactly pleasant places to live now. In Paris, summer temperatures regularly hit 44 degrees Celsius or 111 Fahrenheit. And that’s nothing. In central India, temperatures reach 60 degrees Celsius (that’s 140 Fahrenheit) for 45 days of the year.

It’s fair to say that everyone is suffering deeply, enraged at the politicians and citizens of the past who refused to act in the face of the climate crisis.

We can create a sustainable future, but it will require major shifts in the way we do almost everything.

Now imagine a different future. You wake up on an average day in 2050 and walk outside to breathe in the fresh, moist air. Your city is covered in trees, there are gardens on every rooftop, and every formerly vacant lot has been converted into a shady grove or play area for children.

Globally, forest cover is at 50 percent. There aren’t very many wide open plains left, and new electric railways mean cities are more connected than ever. In the United States, the days of flying from the east to the west coast are long gone – now, you can travel from New York City to Los Angeles in a high-speed bullet train.

To solve the climate crisis, we must believe, wholeheartedly, that it’s a problem we can fix.

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? The truth is, your answer might not matter much. That’s because, according to psychology, you can change your attitude to the future by challenging your current thought patterns and building better ones.

All of which means that even if you feel like a pessimist right now, you can talk yourself into becoming an optimist! And in order to face the climate crisis and take on the challenges it presents, we all need a heavy dose of optimism.

If you can adopt a mind-set of abundance and collaboration, you’ll see that there is often enough for everyone.

Picture yourself on any given weekday morning. You’re waiting for your bus or train to arrive to take you to work. Finally, it sidles up, and you rush to board the crowded vehicle. How do you feel?

You probably experience a sense of urgency – you must nab the best seat, and it doesn’t matter what you have to do to get it!

It’s not too late to restore the world’s natural resources, but we must embrace a regenerative way of life.

The instinct to strive for more has been a part of human society for centuries. As a species, we’re accustomed to constantly taking – from the land, from the sea, and from the indigenous populations that have been colonized over the years, to name just a few examples.

But many of our planet’s resources are finite, and we’re approaching a point where just taking will no longer be possible.

To create a livable world, we must take brave steps forward and turn away from the past.

The year is 2015, and the negotiations leading up to the Paris Agreement are nearly at an end. The authors are in their office, working on the final arrangements. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door and in walks the head of UN Security. He announces the unthinkable: a bomb has been found at Le Bourget subway station, the closest stop to the conference.

In that moment, the authors faced a choice: to go ahead despite the risk that another bomb might be planted, or call everything off and potentially destroy their best chance of reaching an international agreement on climate change.

Technology is a massive benefit – maybe even necessary for ending the climate crisis – but we must use it responsibly.

Nature and technology don’t normally go hand in hand, yet technological advances could prove an excellent tool in the fight against climate change.

Take self-driving electric cars. They produce lower emissions than traditional cars and may end up reducing private ownership since you could simply call one up like an Uber – just without the driver. Or take plant-based and lab-grown meat alternatives. By switching production from the land to the laboratory, you could greatly reduce the impact of agriculture on global emissions.

It’s time to change your consumption patterns.

Consumerism is running rampant. Products and brands are designed so that buying them is what marks you out as part of a tribe of like-minded people. Year after year, your identity and the products you consume become more and more entwined.

In particular, the fashion industry is a problem because of its enormous carbon footprint – second only to the oil industry. Textile production adds more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than all international flights and maritime shipping combined!

We must seek out the truth in order to fight climate change through political action.

It’s no secret that the internet is rife with misinformation, and social media isn’t helping to correct the problem. In fact, a recent MIT analysis of Twitter concluded that – on average – lies spread six times faster than the truth.

Some people have gone so far as to name our current world a post-truth era. And that does seem to hold some weight because, even though our political leaders freely spread lies and deny science, we still choose to believe them.

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The Future We Choose (2020) presents us with two potential visions of life on earth: one of sweltering heat, diminishing biodiversity, and severely declining quality of life, and one where the planet’s temperature has stabilized, life flourishes, and humanity prospers. The world we choose will depend on the actions we take now, in what is a critical decade in the fight against climate change. While the prospect may seem daunting, it’s time to rise to the challenge and determine our future.

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Über den Autor

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican diplomat who has chaired multiple international organizations and served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016. During that period, she led six annual global climate negotiations that eventually resulted in the historic 2015 Paris Agreement.

Tom Rivett-Carnac is a British political lobbyist and former Buddhist monk who joined co-author Christiana Figureres as her chief political strategist during negotiations for the 2015 Paris Agreement. Formerly, he was president and CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project USA, a not-for-profit charity.

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