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Students have handed over a memorandum demanding Wits adopt the charter, which means divesting from fossil fuels and facilitating a just transition. ....
Melissa Fourie is the executive director of the Centre for Environmental Rights and a member of the Presidential Climate Commission. Earlier this month, political instigation allowed the powder keg of inequality in our country to explode on to our streets and shopping malls. The extreme pressure of poverty, unemployment, hunger, and violence all exacerbated by the unending Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown measures was on stark display. The centre barely held. Imagine adding the ravages of the climate crisis to this crisis of extreme inequality. Right now, at an average global temperature increase of 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels, South Africa is already reeling from a prolonged drought and other disruptions to ecosystems and food crops. In the northern hemisphere, deadly heatwaves, fires, and extreme flooding this summer have found many governments unprepared. ....
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