When it comes to climate action, target date is now
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February 14, 2021 — 12.05am
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The target year for net zero carbon emissions preferred by many nations, including this one, is 30 years away (“Almost alone now: Australia isolated on climate”, February 7). Last century, over a 30-year period, humanity struggled and dealt with two world wars, the Depression and the Spanish influenza. Each nightmare rocking humanity to its foundations. All pale into insignificance should climate change reach a tipping point. Climate scientists exhort that time is of the essence to accelerate our efforts to avoid such an event. 2050 is a target too far.