The world is burning, literally.

A new report released on Monday by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate are intensifying and likely irreversible. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres described the report’s findings as a “code red for humanity” and called for urgent action.

Once the Earth reaches an increase of 2 degrees Celsius, extreme heat would likely reach “critical tolerance thresholds” for humans and agriculture, the report predicts, adding that unless there are “immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,” we may not be able to mitigate the already-observable effects of climate change.

“Stabilizing the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions. Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate,” said IPCC Working Group I Co-Chair Panmao Zhai.

This comes at no surprise but just a handful of companies (100) are responsible for 71% of all global emissions. The average person should not be the ones doing the most to sacrifice their comfort to make the world more habitable for generations to come when we don’t even do the majority of the polluting. 

We need to hold the corporations accountable. We need to push world leaders to listen to the science before it is too late. Recommending a carbon tax on corporations would drastically reduce the amount of carbon emissions and has been proven to work in other countries. 

At this point though, anything would help. We need to do anything we can to at least slow down the rise of the climates temperature in the coming years. Have hope that we can and will make this change.

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