As 20,000 government leaders, journalists, activists and celebrities from around the world prepare to descend on Glasgow for a crucial climate summit starting late this month, another high-level international environmental meeting got started this week. The problem it seeks to tackle: A rapid collapse of species and systems that collectively sustain life on earth.
The stakes at the two meetings are equally high, many leading scientists say, but the biodiversity crisis has received far less attention.
“If the global community continues to see it as a side event, and they continue thinking that climate change is now the thing to really listen to, by the time they wake up on biodiversity it might be too late,” said Francis Ogwal, one of the leaders of the working group charged with shaping an agreement among nations.
Because climate change and biodiversity loss are intertwined, with the potential for both win-win solutions and vicious cycles of destruction, they […]
Stop being an asshole by encouraging the Boomer vs younger people divide (in your opening remarks). You’re a Boomer and you’re very concerned, and I suspect you’ve been concerned for many decades and an activist for right action. So have I and MANY others of our generation. Don’t we have enough division separating us without pushing a stick in the cage of “us against them”? We better get that we’re all in this together. This means you! Clean up this rhetoric, please. It’s old and boring and doesn’t move us forward, and that’s all we have time for now.
Rosa —
I am in fact not a boomer, and am much older. Your bad language shows your poor manners, and is factually inaccurate, as anyone can discover in five minutes searching Google.