Former UN Climate Chief issues another tipping point of ‘a decade at best’ to ‘control’ climate or ‘we will really be condemned to an endless destruction’ – ‘Social change comes about when 3.5% of population is pressing for it…we’re almost there, at the 3.5%’

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/world/climate-change-optimism-christiana-figueres-intl/index.html

UN Paris architect and former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres issue another tipping point!

Excerpts: The problem, she said, is that there isn’t much time to take this control: A decade, at best.
“Ten years from now, in 2030, we will either have written a very positive story, or we will really be condemned to an endless destruction. So for these 10 years we’re holding the pen,” Figueres said

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Figueres said humans need to realize they have the power to choose the future. “That is an incredible opportunity and it is unique in the history of humankind,” she said

“My parents and generations before that didn’t have the power to say ‘we will write history,’ they just couldn’t, because they didn’t have the technology, they didn’t have the capital, they didn’t understand the policy.”

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