Don’t imagine the future—it’s already here
这篇评论指出,关于气候变化的流行辩论常想象未来世界,但现实更明显和紧迫:气候变化已经发生,我们无需想象未来,而是需要努力改写这个未来。
Popular debate about climate change often imagines future worlds. In this short commentary, I argue the reality is far more evident and urgent; we don’t need to imagine the future of climate change because it is already here. We know the carbon budget we must abide by to avoid dangerous climate change and we are already seeing the reality of extreme weather events unimaginable even a decade ago. We know how climate change ends; we now need to try and rewrite this future.