Journalist David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After a year of catastrophic weather events, nations have gathered for the COP27 climate conference. The picture is grim, but some climate scientists say they’re encouraged by progress the world has made. David Wallace-Wells joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:22.8	We are getting dangerously close to the point of no return.
0:26.7	All G20 countries must accelerate their transition now in these decades.
0:34.4	Humanity has a choice.
0:36.0	Cooperate or perish.
0:38.7	It is either a climate solidarity pact or a collective suicide pact.
0:44.9	This is on point.
0:46.0	I'm Magna Chacrobardi and that is UN Secretary General Antonio Guteres
0:50.3	at the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt going on this week.
0:56.4	In just days our planet's population will cross a new threshold.
1:03.3	The eight billions member of our human family will be born.
1:09.2	This milestone puts into perspective what this climate conference is all about.
1:15.7	How will we answer when maybe eight billion is old enough to ask?
1:22.2	What did you do for our world and for our planet when you had the chance?
1:29.8	We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing.
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