1.5 degree by 2025 is announced. What can you do about it? Join the Atlas tsunami🌊
People round the world are getting scared, corporates are starting to dance, your action matter, as this is the story you will tell to your children.
Last week’s news that we have a 50/50 chance of hitting the dreaded 1.5-degree temperature rise at any time in the next five years is an awful admission of failure.
We have treated this figure as a red line for more than twenty years. Cross it, and we are doomed. Restrict the rise to a figure below 1.5, and we are relatively safe. So what are we to do now? Move the red line?
🤷♂️Accepting the doomer’s status quo?

I want to sound a positive note in the face of an apparent disaster. Climate Change is a misnomer. Climates Change is the correct term. Climates are different from region to region, and can then be sub-divided again into Micro-climates. All are different. We may hit +1.5 degrees at any time in the next five years, but it will not be uniform. It may cause greater difficulties in some areas, but let’s not forget that it will also bring greater benefits to others.
Don’t despair, …
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