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So I was thinking, if I succeed in working with all my colleagues to actually help to stop deforestation, maybe we will lose the battle later on for
climate
change by floods, heat, fires and so on.
So I decided to leave the forest service and start to work directly on
climate
change, find a way to think and understand the challenge, and go from there.
Now, the challenge of
climate
change is pretty straightforward.
I think we are doing this with deforestation in Brazil, and I hope we can do it also with
climate
change in the world.
We can still prosper, humanity can still prosper for 150,000 years if we keep the same stability of
climate
as in the Holocene for the last 10,000 years.
As fauna and flora flourish, Earth’s
climate
slowly recovers from millennia of human impact.
and yet here we are today, about half of the rainforest remains, and we have potentially more urgent problems like
climate
change.
It's the second highest contributor to
climate
change.
It might just be the cheapest, fastest way to fight
climate
change.
This was reinforced by the political
climate
of the time.
This was reinforced by the political
climate
of the day.
And worldwide, act further, like you've begun to do at the end of last year by striking out against
climate
change with hands joined together rather than fists apart.
But I'm not a
climate
scientist, I'm an astronomer.
I use planet Earth to go in very extreme environments where conditions were similar to those of Mars at the time when the
climate
changed, and there I'm trying to understand what happened.
And the other thing about those sites is that exactly like on Mars three and a half billion years ago, the
climate
is changing very fast, and water and ice are disappearing.
Life is abundant in those lakes, but like in many places on Earth right now and due to
climate
change, there is a huge loss in biodiversity.
It has helped to understand the past
climate
of Mars and its evolution, but also its habitability potential.
Flooding is expected to be increasingly problematic as the
climate
changes.
These are precisely the same organizations that most of us trust when it comes to other important scientific issues such as global
climate
change or the safety of vaccines.
I know that the scale of antibiotic resistance seems overwhelming, but if you've ever bought a fluorescent lightbulb because you were concerned about
climate
change, or read the label on a box of crackers because you think about the deforestation from palm oil, you already know what it feels like to take a tiny step to address an overwhelming problem.
In the 1850s, Brigham Young dispatched families to St. George to grow cotton because of the hot, arid
climate.
What I didn't have to think about, either as president or as a constitutional lawyer, was the implications for the sovereignty of the territory because of the impact of
climate
change.
For them, it would have been unimaginable that a whole country could go out of existence because of human-induced
climate
change.
I came to
climate
change not as a scientist or an environmental lawyer, and I wasn't really impressed by the images of polar bears or melting glaciers.
And I say this with humility, because I came late to the issue of
climate
change.
When I served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002,
climate
change wasn't at the front of my mind.
I don't remember making a single speech on
climate
change.
So those who are suffering disproportionately don't drive cars, don't have electricity, don't consume very significantly, and yet they are feeling more and more the impacts of the changes in the climate, the changes that are preventing them from knowing how to grow food properly, and knowing how to look after their future.
Governments around the world agreed at the conference in Copenhagen, and have repeated it at every conference on climate, that we have to stay below two degrees Celsius of warming above pre-Industrial standards.
And that made me realize that
climate
change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.
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