The Race for Survival

We will survive, but our current cultures may not

The innovative survey was distributed across mobile gaming networks in order to include hard-to-reach audiences in traditional polling, like youth under the age of 18. — UNDP Bhutan

As we witness the increasing speed and severity of climate-entangled global disasters, we face two different sources of depression and despair. The first is ignorance, the second is corporate media’s refusal to face reality, and the third is politically motivated denial for reasons of personal gain.

Speed is now critical. In the last year, we have seen the acceleration of global warming in surface temperatures, which has stunned the scientific community. The initially agreed timeline from the Paris conference placed dangerous changes past 2050. Those are now as close as 2030.

Predictions of Future Global Climate | Center for Science Education (ucar.edu)

How many people do you know who are aware of this, even though we have record-breaking high temperatures planetwide this year? How many know that we have already increased average temperatures to at least 1.2 degrees C and may have passed the 1.5 degrees that is still our global goal?

The majority of the planet’s population understands the reality of this disaster. As of 2021, Sixty-four percent of people believe climate change is a global emergency despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.