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The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.


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What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.



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How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.



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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.



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It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.



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We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.





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