The promise of unfailing ‘seedtime and harvest’: a cover for climate complacency?

David Golding  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Feb 2022
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The promise of unfailing ‘seedtime and  harvest’: a cover for climate complacency?

Left:photo: NOAA on Unsplash Right: photo: iStock

New figures just released by the European Climate Agency Copernicus reveal the last seven years as the world’s hottest on record.

We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency and that the world’s people face untold suffering due to the climate crisis unless there are major transformations to global society. (Article in Bioscience endorsed by 11,000 scientists from 153 nations, 5 November 2019)

This report is code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: emissions from fossil fuel burning … are putting billions of people at immediate risk. (Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, 9 August 2021)

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