OPINION: Dear Jacinda, Winston and James,
I’ve lived in the Tasman District for 30 years. I am writing in support of Extinction Rebellion’s protests and demands of our government in the face of a climate emergency, and how to act.
We are in serious trouble, along with all other species, and have a difficult choice to make.
A report from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) explains how our climate has already now been kicked out of the million year-old ice-age cycle, what dangerous positive feedbacks are just around the corner initiated by anthropogenic global warming, and how we are currently crossing the irreversible threshold towards another old stable planetary state scientists call the ‘HotHouse’.
