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Are We Evil
Sam Paganini
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When I was about eight years old
I first heard about something called climate change, or global warming
Apparently that was something humans had created by our way of living
I was told to turn off the lights to save energy
And to recycle paper to save resources
I remember thinking that it was very strange
That humans, who are an animal species among others
Could be capable of changing the earth's climate
Because if we were, and if it was really happening
We wouldn't be talking about anything else
As soon as you turned on the TV, everything would be about that
Headlines, radio, newspapers
You would never read or hear about anything else
Either we go on as a civilization or we don't
We have to change
Rich countries need to start reducing
Emissions by at least 15% every year
And that is so that we can stay below a 2 degree warming target
Yet, as the IPCC have recently demonstrated
Aiming instead for 1.5 degrees Celsius
Will significantly reduce the climate impacts
We can only imagine what that means for reducing emissions
You would think the media and every one of our
Leaders would be talking about nothing else
But they never even mention it
Nor does anyone ever mention the greenhouse
Gases already locked in the system
Or the air pollution that is hiding the warming
So that when we stop burning fossil fuels
We already have an extra level of warming
Perhaps as high as 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Celsius
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Furthermore, does hardly anyone speak of the fact
That we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction
With up to 200 species going extinct every single day
So, why are we not reducing our emissions?
Why are they in fact still increasing?
Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction?
Are we evil?
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