African Solutions to Global Problems

Last week, the world was <a href="https://www.iol.co.za/news/environment/world-set-to-breach-15c-threshold-by-2027-scientists-35092ec7-7c7c-45c8-a08f-7430ee447715" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">warned</a> that it is on track to cross a crucial threshold. While the Paris Agreement recognized the need to limit global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution to 2°C, it “aimed” for 1.5°. Given the world’s failure to doing anything meaningful to stop pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we are likely to pass this target by 2027. The consequences will be stark. At less than 1.5°C warming, we have already witnessed year after year of the warmest temperatures on record. The glaciers are still melting, sea levels are rising, destructive storms are occurring more frequently and more intensely, diseases are spreading, and people are suffering. Thus, this is dire news. At 2°C, we may expect more of the same—just even worse. At that point, we will see entire countries disappear. As scientists have said again and again, every fraction of a degree matters. <a href="https://medium.com/@absurdistan/african-solutions-to-global-problems-cba924bbd3ce">Website</a>