also known as: the age of ignorance.
The earth’s climate might destabilize.
TARGET: STAY BELOW 2 DEGREES (AVERAGE YEARLY TEMPERATURE RISE)
Point of stabilization needs to be around 2015.
If not huge amounts of methane could be released from permafrost soils in siberia.
WHAT TO DO? EAT LESS MEAT!
REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC TOYS!
https://www.facebook.com/tentenuk/
Author of the Film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Armstrong
Greenpeace volunteers displayed a 300 square metre banner on a soya plantation grown in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, accusing fast
food company KFC of Amazon crimes. KFC is fuelling the destruction of the Amazon by selling cheap chicken fed on soya grown on deforested
Amazon land. The expansion of soya is one of the leading causes of forest destruction in the Amazon.
Greenpeace/Markus Mauthe
Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/kfc-exposed-for-trashing-the-a/
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/code/2014/amazon/index.html
EU wants (but does not enforce, because of fossil-fuel lobbying) The 2030 climate and energy framework sets three key targets for the year 2030:
At least 40% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (from 1990 levels)
At least 27% share for renewable energy
At least 27% improvement in energy efficiency
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/2030/index_en.htm
Low oil prices could ‘hamper’ action on climate change, say scientists
Global Average Surface Temperature 1850 until 2015:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dashboardclimate/index.html
Links:
Life Hacks to reduce CO2 footprint: http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/real-life-hacks-to-cut-your-carbon-footprint-plus-a-personal-emissions-calculator-20160314