“Climate Change is the Single Greatest Threat to Humanity”  

Doctor Young also spoke about the global impacts of climate change and the immediate actions that must be taken. He contends that Earth is on a trajectory to not only exceed the one point five degrees outlined in the Paris Agreement, but to potentially exceed three degrees within the next eight decades. As a result, the current effects of climate change would be significantly magnified. Here is how he puts it.

 

Dr. Colin Young, Executive Director, CCCCC

“The U.N. has called climate change the single greatest threat to humanity. Our leaders across the region, pick your country. They will tell you that climate change is an existential threat. It is undermining our ability to meet our S.D.G.s and we are paying for it in lives and livelihoods and worst of all it is something we did not cause. So, it is a socially unjust situation and the truth of it is, the absolute truth the world is heading in the wrong direction despite all the public commitment we heard from those who are responsible for causing climate change. The science is very clear when to come sot climate change. We know that in order for us to keep one point five alive that we have to cut emissions by forty-five percent in 2030. So we have to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We have to look at transitioning food and food production from fossil fuel energy. We have to electrify and move away from coal and go to things like wind and solar. But when we look at all the pledges and promises countries have made, COP twenty nine Is coming up, COP twenty-eight past like eight months ago, we came back with some sense of hope that the world will do more fast. Ironically and unfortunately for us they are not.”