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David Suzuki: Leading thinkers call for fossil fuel halt
We talk about the urgency of the climate and biodiversity crises but act as if we have all the time in the world to address them By David Suzuki
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In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. (Only India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and South Sudan are not signatories.)
Now the world faces a threat as great as or greater than nuclear weapons: global warming. That’s led to calls for a “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.” Recently, 101 Nobel laureates – in peace, literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economic sciences, including the Dalai Lama – signed a letter to world leaders endorsing the proposal.