Hello, you are listening to Red Minus, I'm Allison, and I'm here with Brett, and this is our

Patreon episode for this month. So for this month, because we are doing a theoretical episode

on Paula Freere's pedagogy of the oppressed, as our main public episode, we wanted to talk about

a big current event that happened for our patrons. It also relates to a theme that we can just

seem to not stop going back to, which is climate change. So as you may know, the IPCC released a

new report that does a fair amount of work looking at data about climate change and paint some

pictures that I think are worth looking at. So the IPCC is this intergovernmental panel that is

made up of a broad range of scientists who look at climate change from a variety of disciplinary

perspectives and end up issuing statements. Historically, back in the 1990s, when we started to get

IPCC reports, they tended to be not very alarming. The first IPCC report, for example, actually argued

that there wasn't sufficient evidence that climate change was human-caused, and now here we are

with an IPCC report that is quite alarming in 2021. So today, we're going to go ahead and go through

some of this, give our thoughts on it, and try to think about how all this matters from a Marxist

perspective. So maybe we can start just walking through some of the findings from this report. So I'm

going to read you some of the summaries that the IPCC put together for what they found. So the first

thing that they found, and this you've probably already seen headlines of, is they say the report

provides a new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5 degrees Celsius

in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate rapid and large-scale reductions

in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or even two degrees

Celsius will be beyond reach. And as a note, when they say immediate, they mean immediate. Like,

we would have to start doing it now. The second thing that they say is the report shows that

emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1 degrees Celsius

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