“Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems … humans cannot.”
– The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in a leaked draft of this year’s landmark report due for publication at
COP26, the UN climate talks taking place in November in Glasgow. The 4,000-page indictment of humanity’s stewardship of the planet was obtained by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) and warns of a series of thresholds beyond which recovery from climate breakdown may become impossible.
