Window to mitigate climate change is rapidly closing
New Indian ExpressThe recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report titled ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’ warned that if emissions are not cut rapidly, heat and humidity will create conditions beyond human tolerance and its economic impact could also be devastating. “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health,” the report concludes. As the IPCC report asserts that almost half of humanity lives in the danger zone where climate change is already causing widespread disruption to nature and posing the greatest threat to the health and livelihoods of those who can least cope with it, it reminds us of British documentary film director Franny Armstrong’s 2009 drama-documentary-animation hybrid The Age of Stupid. The film is a reflection from 2055 when the world has been ravaged by catastrophic climate change—London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by the desert, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps and nuclear war has laid waste to India.
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