What the experts say

“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.”

“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.”

“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,”

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

“More than half (53%) of 16- to 18-year- olds believe that it is “likely” that the world will end in their lifetimes because of climate change.”

“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.”

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

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

“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,”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

“By 2100, summer in the northern hemisphere is forecast to last six months whilst winter will be slashed to just right weeks.”

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

“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.”

“Without action, you aren’t going anywhere”

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

“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”.

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