What the experts say

“Polluters must pay” for the escalating damage caused by heatwaves, floods, drought and other climate impacts, and demanded that it was “high time to put fossil fuel producers, investors and enablers on notice”.

António Guterres

UN secretary general

“The searing temperatures experienced in Britain in 2022, when the country recorded its hottest day on record, will be considered average by 2060 and ‘cool’ by the end of the century,”

UK Met Office

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

“A quarter of the world’s population is currently exposed to extremely high annual water stress, according to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI).
“People like to think about climate change as the biggest existential threat to humanity,”.
“But water stress is climate change’s deadliest and most used weapon.”

Crystal Davis

Global director of WRI's Food, Land and Water Program

“There is a real prospect that rising sea levels could turn Cambridge into a seaside town by the end of this century.”

Bill McGuire

“A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a catastrophic collapse that would “affect every person on the planet”, said scientists. A study published in the journal Nature found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025. The likeliest point of collapse is somewhere between 2039 and 2070.”

Peter Ditlevsen

professor of climate physics at the University of Copenhagen

“Right now, much of the world is ‘Net Zero-aligned’ but there is no consensus on what that means, and it is slowing the pace of corporate emissions reduction and climate action plans.”

Allister Furey

CEO and co-founder of UK-based climate data company, Sylvera

“Action without vision is only passing time,
vision without action is merely day dreaming,
but vision with action can change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

“on Monday 3rd July 2023, the average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F), according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction, surpassing the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) from August 2016. “This is not a milestone we should be celebrating, but a death sentence for people and ecosystems”

Friederike Otto

of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain’s Imperial College London

“Without action, you aren’t going anywhere”

Gandhi

“The earth has finally and clearly spoken, reminding us that we have been living outside the boundaries of nature’s laws. We need to urgently reframe our relationship afresh, in order to rebuild a regenerative future.”

Nim Njuguna

“By 2050 global production of maize is predicted to reduce by a quarter, rice by 11% and potatoes by 9% and wheat by 3%. This will reduce global calorie availability by 35trillion, enough to feed 50 million mouths.”

Bill McGuire

Hothouse Earth

“The Persian Gulf, South and Southeast Asia will bear the brunt of extreme heat. Sometime before 2100 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh and Patna Bihar are each predicted to suffer at least one heatwave with massive death tolls.”

Bill McGuire

“The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the has said after scientists confirmed July was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record.

“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,”

António Guterres

UN secretary general

“Lots of people hardly even feel real soil under their feet, see plants grow except in flower pots, or get far enough beyond the street lights to catch the enchantment of a night sky studded with stars. When people live far from scenes of the Great Spirit’s making, it’s easy for them to forget his laws.”

Chief Walking Buffalo

“We are acting with reckless indifference to our future on planet Earth”

Stephen Hawking

“War is not the solution to the problems we face in the 21st century”

Veterans for Peace UK

ICAN

“$157,664 per minute on nuclear weapons, that’s what the nine-nuclear armed states spent in 2022”

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