The Terrifying Truths You Need To Know About the Climate Crisis

The inconvenient truths that lie under the surface of the ‘fight’ to ‘solve’ the climate crisis.

Paul Abela, MSc
The New Climate.

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Wind turbines gently slice through the air, generating the energy that powers our lives. A majestic sunrise creeps over the horizon. A glistening vibrant green meadow awaits a flock of grazing sheep. Ahhhh, bliss. A picture of sustainability. A future that’s increasingly becoming a reality, or so it would appear. Only, just like the darkest of comedies, this picture is a facade. An aberration. A myth.

In stark contrast to that picture of sustainability and the never-ending fight to ‘solve’ the climate crisis, 2022 was marked by an unwanted record: carbon emissions reached a new all-time high of 36.8 billion tonnes. So what’s really been going on? The contrast is an outcome of some rather inconvenient truths that lie under the surface of the battle to solve the climate crisis. Here are seven such inconveniences:

1. COP meetings are a sham

Photo by Matthew TenBruggencate on Unsplash

Like many Climate Change Conference (COP)’s before, this year’s COP 28 ended with a…

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Paul Abela, MSc
The New Climate.

Writer and systems thinker | Place a lens on the social, economic and political causes of the climate crisis | Visit my website and blog at transformatise.com