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The Promise and Peril of Making Climate Change the Next Political Hot-Topic
11.Dec.2020 12:45 PM . 6 min read
On September 19, 2020, a new message flashed on Metronome, the 15-digit clock which faces Union Square in Manhattan: “The Earth has a deadline.” Then a string of eerie numbers lit up the screen: 7:103:15:40:07. This is the accumulation of years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds left until the effects of climate change become irreversible unless action is taken to curb our emissions and keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees. Two years ago, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that detailed how much more warming the world can stand before the effects of climate change become irreversible. The IPCC’s findings are no longer hypothetical: “Any increase in global temperature (e.g., +0.5°C) is projected to affect human health, with primarily negative consequences (