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Mann](https://time.com/author/michael-e-mann/) Apr 12, 2022 7:05 PM UTC Today’s young people are coming of age just as the stable climate that has allowed previous generations to thrive on our planet begins to visibly break down—and just before our last chance to stop it falls out of reach. by [Susan Joy Hassol](https://time.com/author/susan-joy-hassol/) and [Michael E. Mann](https://time.com/author/michael-e-mann/) Apr 12, 2022 7:05 PM UTC We are at an agonizing moment in world history. The combined stresses of the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and economic troubles stemming from spiking oil and gas prices, inflation, and growing global inequality have pushed us to our limits— geopolitically, environmentally, and psychologically. After centuries of colonialism, intensive resource extraction, and narrow, short-term thinking, the chickens have come home to roost. But what if we could feed three birds with one scone? Following the release of climate reports, such as the recent [IPCC assessments](https://time.com/6152183/ipcc-report-climate-change-adaptation/), we often observe a surge of [doomism](https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2022/0405/Earth-needs-climate-action-not-climate-doomism-scientists-say). When headlines proclaim it’s “[now or never](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60984663)” to limit warming, some assume we won’t do what’s needed in time. And if you think there’s nothing we can do, [why bother trying](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/doomsday-scenarios-are-as-harmful-as-climate-change-denial/2017/07/12/880ed002-6714-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40%5Fstory.html)? Some well-meaning people can be weaponized by those who stand to benefit if we throw up our hands in surrender rather than challenging the fossil fuel industry’s social license. We must stress the _urgency_. There is clearly no time to waste. But [there is _agency_ too](https://behavioralscientist.org/urgency-and-agency-michael-mann-on-conquering-climate-despair/). The problem with “now or never” is that it implies a hard threshold at 1.5°C that if we fail to achieve, it’s game over. But this game will never be over. There is no point beyond which we shouldn’t keep trying to limit warming. Every fraction of a degree matters to the level of suffering climate disruption will rain down on us. We are reaping what we’ve sown in a world that has remained dependent on fossil fuels for far too long. Bad actors like Russia and Saudi Arabia (which have done everything they can [to block global climate action](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46496967)) have gained tremendous wealth and influence from our dependence on fossil fuels. And they have long held the world hostage with their leverage over oil and gas markets. They have weakened our ability to respond to their various aggressions from a place of strength. With so many crises competing for our attention and concern, how can we prioritize the greatest threats when the more immediate ones so often displace the most important? Someone needs to be thinking about the future, and fittingly, those who will inherit it, are. More than [80 percent of young people are worried](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract%5Fid=3918955) about climate change. And they are angry, as well they should be. Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villaseñor, Vanessa Nakate, and other leaders of the youth climate movement are fueled with righteous anger against those who have stood by and watched as the world burned. Interesting thing about anger; turns out it’s a more [useful emotion](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278221000018) than anxiety or depression when it comes to climate action. It engages and empowers. There is good cause for righteous anger. There is a villain in this story. The fossil fuel industry, the richest in human history, has [known for decades](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/) the climate damage its products would do. Its own scientists told them decades ago. But instead of releasing the scientific findings and charting a different course, it bankrolled a massive disinformation campaign designed to thwart action on climate change. The industry, and the politicians it supports to do its bidding, have been largely successful in blocking effective measures to rein in climate change. These coal and oil barons say they’re just supplying people with what they want. But we don’t want fossil fuels. What we want is cold beer and hot showers, services like convenient ways to get around and good food to eat. If we can get those in a way that doesn’t destroy our planet’s life-support system, we’d surely prefer that. The IPCC’s [latest report](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3/), on climate change mitigation, that is, reducing future climate change by cutting heat-trapping gas emissions or increasing their uptake from the air, tells us that this is entirely possible, using current technologies. Many such actions are on the so-called “demand side,” because they reduce energy demand rather than increasing its supply. The IPCC found that demand-side strategies could reduce 40 to 70 percent of heat-trapping gas emissions across all sectors by 2050\. A pretty astounding finding, and as investigative journalist [Amy Westervelt bemoans](https://www.drilledpodcast.com/debunking-demand-ipcc-mitigation-report-part-1/), why wasn’t this a headline in every paper? Let’s return to our three birds: war in Ukraine, climate change, and the economy. A broader and more integrated approach sees these not as three separate crises but as one with a single win-win-win solution. Now is the time to tackle these related crises and seize the opportunity to move with determination into the clean energy future. The U.S. is in a good position to do so; we’re not starting from scratch. The [U.S. is second (to China) in both wind and solar](https://prod.iea.org/reports/key-world-energy-statistics-2021/supply). Fossil fuel companies can use their expertise, work force, and other resources to become broader energy companies. Their experience in geology can be [turned to geothermal](https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical) energy, which has tremendous untapped promise. Their experience in offshore oil can be [turned to offshore wind](https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/oil-companies-offshore-wind/), a resource with enormous potential, and in which the [U.S. lags far behind a dozen](https://www.statista.com/statistics/264264/capacity-of-offshore-wind-power-plants-worldwide-2010/) other nations. [Peabody coal](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-01/after-139-years-of-coal-mining-peabody-is-expanding-into-solar) owns extensive lands that can be used for solar farms and other renewable energy development. These companies have long been [agents of denial and delay](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/oil-companies-discourage-climate-action-study-says/) on climate action. Even now, [big fossil fuel companies continue](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/07/wealthy-nations-breaking-climate-pledge-with-gas-dash-in-global-south) to explore for oil and gas and build new infrastructure, [with the support of big banks](https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/wp-content/themes/bocc-2021/inc/bcc-data-2022/BOCC%5F2022%5FvSPREAD.pdf). The top four banks making these investments are American: JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. [New oil and gas projects are being planned and approved](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-mobils-fourth-guyana-offshore-oil-project-gets-environmental-permit-2022-04-01/) as we speak. The world is [on track to produce twice the fossil fuels in 2030](https://productiongap.org/) than would be consistent with the internationally agreed upon 1.5°C target. The time has come for the fossil fuel industry and the banks that fund it to be held accountable and have their social license revoked. The only path to lasting security is to get off fossil fuels, once and for all. Let this be the moment that the U.S. takes the lead in solving the related challenges before us, helping propel the world toward a climate safe, politically secure, and economically prosperous future. It is in _our_ hands. ## Transcript [00:02] [Namrata Iyer]: I think some of the biggest challenges my generation faces is convincing [00:07] the previous generations about why it's important to talk about what we believe in. [00:13] [Greta Thunberg]: We can't choose between us young people saying to adults you must [00:18] behave but we can't wait for us to become the ones in charge because we don't have time [00:23] for that. [00:24] [Timothée Chalamet]: Your youth does not have to work against you by way of experience, [00:27] your youth can be a virtue by way of what you ethically and earnestly expect of the [00:32] world. [00:33] [Billie Eilish]: People can be so selfish about the environment and their experience [00:38] versus the globe and literally our lifespan. [00:42] [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]: The America we grew up in is like nothing like the America [00:48] our parents or grandparents grew up in. [00:51] [Nyke Slawik]: When you have young people who are confronted with not having a future [00:56] at all of course this is going to radicalize a whole generation. [01:02] This is a question of survival basically. [01:07] [John Kerry]: I don't doubt that we will get to a net zero carbon economy. [01:13] Will we get there fast enough to heed the science and avoid the worst consequences? [01:17] That's the battle. [01:19] That's what we're trying to do with Glasgow. [01:22] [Thunberg]: What do we want? [01:23] [Audience]: Climate justice. [01:24] [Thunberg]: When do we want it? [01:25] [Audience]: Now. [01:27] [Thunberg]: What do we want? [01:28] [Audience]: Climate justice. [01:29] [Thunberg]: When do we want it? [01:30] [Audience]: Now. [01:31] [Thunberg]: Thank you. [01:32] [Justin Worland]: This generation has reframed the way we talk and think about climate to [01:36] make it an issue of intergenerational justice. [01:39] The question is will this anger turn into action? [01:42] Will leaders who have been listening actually take the message to heart and do something [01:48] about it? [01:49] [Kerry]: Our diplomacy is guided by what the scientists are telling us we must achieve. [01:55] Three years ago they had a report in 2018 the IPCC gave us 12 years within which to [02:01] make the critical decisions to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis. [02:06] [Hoesung Lee]: Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is not impossible but will require unprecedented [02:13] transitions in all aspects of society. [02:16] [Worland]: It was alarming in its the seriousness with which it portrayed the consequences of [02:21] climate change. [02:22] We're talking about hundreds of millions of people migrating. [02:25] We're talking about the possibility of countries disappearing in their entirety. [02:29] We're talking about a world that is totally transformed. [02:33] Already 85 percent of the world's population has been affected by human-caused climate [02:37] change. [02:38] [Jim Skea]: The message is over to governments at this stage. [02:42] We've told you what you—the scientific facts, the evidence, the costs. [02:47] It is up to the governments now to decide what to do with it. [02:51] [Ciara Nugent]: We've had loads and loads of reports about climate change over the last [02:54] couple of decades and the massive threat to our planet but despite all of the science [02:59] there are still people who are skeptical about how much of a big deal it really is. [03:05] And I think for those people it's much harder to dismiss young people, normal school kids [03:12] because they're part of their communities, they're part of their families often. [03:16] [Nyke Slawik]: What we need is politicians who implement the policies in their home countries [03:23] and that's—that's what has not been happening in the last years. [03:27] And so now young people are saying why go to school? [03:33] Why go to university? [03:35] Why start planning a family? Why buy a house when I don't even know that in 50 years time [03:42] or 70 years time I will still have a future, because right now that's at stake. [03:50] [Ocasio-Cortez]: If we do nothing this is what's going to happen: sea levels are going rise, [03:56] crops are going to die out, there will be mass starvation. [04:00] There's going to be all of these things that are going to happen and kids see that, [04:04] they internalize it. [04:08] [Charlotte Alter]: Researchers have found that young voters form their lifelong political [04:13] attitudes in response to the events of their early adulthood, mostly late teens into the [04:20] late 20s. [04:21] And for millennials and gen z that period of time has been defined by climate catastrophe. [04:29] [Christian Hidalgo]: I'm from Bakersfield, California, central valley. [04:32] Earlier today I've been getting snapchats from all of my friends talking about how orange [04:35] the sky is because of the wildfire surrounding us. [04:39] The closest wildfire is probably not even 60 miles away but we have horrible air quality [04:44] like we're—I'm in the middle of the valley and it just it really strongly affects us [04:49] and that's what—that's what's drawn me to climate activism. [04:51] [Isabella Guariniello]: This is my first strike ever. [04:54] I watched a bunch of like sad penguin videos on YouTube and I started to get really sad [05:00] when I learned about the effects of animals and like how much earth that we're actually [05:05] losing. [05:06] It's hard not to get discouraged when you're constantly learning about what people before [05:10] you did wrong. [05:11] [Sassy Fernandez]: Like I remember being in elementary school and watching Al Gore's documentary [05:16] about climate change and the effects that we could be seeing within the next 10, 15 [05:22] years and so far he's been pretty right about everything that he said in his documentary. [05:27] I totally forgot what it was called but shout outs to my science teacher. [05:31] [Thunberg]: We are being betrayed by those in power and they are failing us but we will [05:38] not back down. [05:45] And if you feel threatened by that then I have some very bad news for you. [05:52] We will not be silenced because we are the change and change is coming whether you like [05:56] it or not. [06:00] We need to work together intergenerational of course that is the only way and we need [06:06] to—everyone needs to participate and help out in the way we can. [06:12] So I'm doing what I can. [06:14] I'm trying to use my voice to spread awareness and to—to put pressure on those in power. [06:21] [Alter]: When TIME put Greta on the cover in 2019 she had just gone from being a school [06:27] girl protesting alone outside of Swedish parliament to being the leader of a global climate movement. [06:36] That year her activism inspired four million people to join the global climate strike in [06:42] 2019 which was at that point the largest climate movement in world history. [06:47] [Worland]: Across the world with very few exceptions there are examples of people who [06:52] have been inspired by her and have led—who've taken up the mantle the Fridays for Future [06:56] movement in countries across the world. [06:59] [Thunberg]: I'm not a leader or the face of the climate movement, I'm just one of many [07:05] faces. [07:06] [Vanessa Nakate]: There are far too little evidence of the 100 billion dollars per year [07:13] that was promised to help climate vulnerable countries to meet these challenges. [07:18] In fact, those funds were promised to arrive by 2020 and we are still waiting. [07:26] [Nugent]: Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, is one of many people who have been [07:31] working to remind us that climate action is going to be expensive and many countries who [07:36] are most vulnerable to climate change can't afford to pay for it alone. [07:40] [Nakate]: Historically Africa is responsible for only three percent of global emissions [07:46] and yet some Africans are already suffering some of the worst and brutal impacts of climate [07:52] change, so to me climate justice doesn't just have to be about reducing greenhouse gas emissions [08:00] it goes beyond the primary disasters that we see. [08:03] It is what happens in the aftermath of those disasters, what happens to families, what [08:10] happens to individuals, what happens to communities. [08:14] [Worland]: You think about the fact that the U.S. has emitted a quarter of emissions historically. [08:19] Africa has emitted three percent of emissions historically and the U.S. is able to isolate [08:27] itself, to pay for adaptation, to pay for the costs in a way that developing countries [08:34] in sub-saharan Africa and across the globe just can't. [08:38] And so climate change is a justice issue on many different levels. [08:42] [Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]: We we have to bear in mind that whether you're rich or poor, [08:46] a rich country or poor country, there are some things you just cannot do on your own. [08:51] You can't deliver on this pandemic on your own, you cannot deliver on climate change [08:57] on your own. [08:58] [Nakate]: So what we really want is a future that is healthy, that is sustainable, that [09:04] is clean, that is livable and equitable for all of us. [09:09] [Nugent]: Some of the activists that I speak to are realizing they can't wait for the older [09:13] generation to take action so they're trying to get elected to governments themselves. [09:17] In Germany, the Green Party has really been in the ascendancy. [09:21] In September they've almost doubled their number of seats in parliament and one of the [09:26] 118 lawmakers they now have is Nyke Slawik. [09:32] She's a 27 year old German politician who was elected in September to the Bundestag [09:37] and she has been involved in climate activism for almost 12 years and now she has political [09:44] power to make a difference. [09:46] [Slawik]: The time of just implementing small changes has passed and this is a reality we [09:56] as younger politicians are bringing with us to the parliament now but of course there's [10:02] lots of older colleagues who have not quite grasped this yet, and I think this is why [10:10] we might be more determined to not go for the small compromises, to be a bit more rebellious [10:17] about these things. [10:19] The last German government has decided to exit coal in 2038 which is still too late [10:26] way too late but now we even have the chance to accelerate energy transition from coal [10:35] to renewables way quicker and that's a major achievement of the youth climate movement. [10:42] [Alter]: In the United States young voters across the political spectrum understand that [10:47] climate change is a major issue that needs to be addressed, they just disagree on how [10:52] best to do it. [10:53] So even younger Republicans, Republicans under 40, they understand that climate change is [10:59] happening, they understand that something has to be done about it, they just don't agree [11:03] with their more progressive peers about the scale and scope of what that intervention [11:08] needs to be. [11:10] So this is a big shift from a couple generations ago when you had one side insisting that climate [11:16] change was a problem and the other side basically denying that it was happening at all. [11:22] [Worland]: When TIME spoke to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, he spoke about how [11:26] the youth movement had made him want to do better. [11:29] When I talked to the U.N. Secretary General he talked about how he was trying to bring [11:33] youth into the climate discussion because it had enthused him and he thought it would [11:38] help change the conversation. [11:40] Talking to members of Congress about how inspirational Greta was really made clear to me that she [11:46] was changing the conversation. [11:48] [Nugent]: In my reporting activists are telling me that COP 26 is a crucial moment to find [11:53] out if politicians are really listening to them and really taking action or if they're [11:58] just saying they're listening and delaying action. [12:01] [Nakate]: Leaders keep praising young people for standing up and protesting but saving [12:07] the world needs action, it needs decisions from the leaders, decisions that prioritize [12:13] the lives of the people and the planet, and that is not something that we are doing. [12:19] The words of the leaders are not matching up with their actions. [12:24] [Thunberg]: Words. [12:25] Words that sound great but so far has led to no action. [12:33] Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises. [12:39] Of course we need constructive dialogue but they've now had 30 years of blah blah blah [12:44] and where has that led us? [12:47] [Jane Goodall]: I'm about to leave the world and leave it behind me with all the mess whereas [12:51] young people have to grow up into it. [12:54] That's why they need every bit of help they can. [12:57] And if, you know, if they succumb to the doom and gloom ,which many have, then they lose [13:04] hope. [13:05] If you lose hope that's the end, because if you don't hope that there's a way out, if [13:11] you don't hope that your actions can make a difference then you sink into apathy and [13:16] do nothing. [13:19] So hope is absolutely crucial if we're to get through this. [13:27] [Singing]: We're going to strike because our waters are rising. [13:30] We're going to strike because our people are dying. [13:32] We're going to strike for life and everything we love. [13:36] We're going to strike for you, will you strike for us? [13:38] We're going to strike for you, will you strike for us? [13:41] We're going to strike because our waters are rising. [13:43] We're going to strike because our people are dying. [13:46] We're going to strike for life and everything we love. [13:49] We're going to strike for you, will you strike for us? [13:51] We're going to strike for you, will you strike for us? 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