Irreversible Climate Damage

The global environmental crisis keeps escalating. A series of multilateral conferences in the final quarter of last year failed to make any serious difference. The interrelated topics were biodiversity, climate, plastic waste and desertification. The conferences did not heed scientific alarm bells. The most important warning was perhaps the 2024 State of the Climate Report, which was written by a team of scientists led by William Ripple of Oregon State University and published in the journal BioScience.