...... will do anything at all in response to this study published in the Lancet in its "Planetary Health" journal. This study is titled A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations


You can read a Guardian summary here

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/consumerism-and-the-climate-crisis-threaten-equitable-future-for-humanity-report-says

"Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says

The Earth Commission says hope lies in sustainable lifestyles, a radical transformation of global politics and fair distribution of resources"

You can read the original article here

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00042-1/fulltext

I haven't read the original article yet, but it explains what humanity has to do to avoid existential catastrphe by 2050, now just 25 year away, though baring a miracle, I won't be here to see this.

My invitation to all contributors to this TLBN is to provide an assessment of the likelihood that we will undertake to do what is needed or even that any government will make reference or take notice.

Perhaps a simple percentage estimate might suffice. My estimate of this, a 5% likelihood. So on twenty different earths as presently arranged, one might actually take the necessary action. What do others think?

Here's a few examples of our present response to our climate and ecological crisis