On this issue, Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Chair of the Earth League, who will also be a speaker at the Berlin demonstration:
“We are approaching a dual tipping point. The climate protests happening this Friday around the world prove the rising momentum of concerted action on climate now. And indeed, policy makers are starting to act. We see that in the German Climate Cabinet session this same Friday, we will hopefully see it at the UN climate summit next week. But will they react fast enough, strong enough? Because there is another tipping point we are approaching. Critical elements of the Earth System are about to be irretrievably damaged. Corals are dying. The Greenland ice mass is melting. Dangerous weather extremes like droughts or floods are increasing. If policy-makers act too slow or too weak, they will fail to protect the safety and prosperity of their constituencies, of all of us. This is a fact. This is the science.”
The Earth League is an international alliance of prominent scientists from world‐class research institutions. Chaired by Johan Rockström, it fosters scientific cooperation on solving the most pressing consequences of climate change for humankind. E
Weblink to Earth League statement: https://www.the-earth-league.org/imperia/md/assets/earthleague/earth_league_statement_18.09.2019.pdf
Weblink to Earth League website: https://www.the-earth-league.org/index.php.en
