IPCC Report Confirms Past Failings And Points To Future Failings To Tackle Climate Crisis

Reacting to the latest IPCC report, People Before Profit Environment spokesperson Brid Smith TD said it was yet another indictment of the failures of global states and governments to take the action needed over climate over the last 3 decades.

She said:

"After we get another round of lofty rhetoric and solemn promises, we will also tragically see the inevitable failure to take the measures needed to curb emissions."

She added that the reactions and actions that followed IPCC reports echoed the saying on repeating history; "the first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

The extremes we have seen globally over recent months show us the tragedy the world is facing, and unfortunately so long as global Governments remain wedded to market's profit growth and business as usual that will not change; the science is now screaming at us that we need much more radical measures to deal with this and that means measures that fly in the face of the economic priorities we currently have.

The TD pointed to the weaknesses in the recent Climate Action Bill as a small example of what was wrong with the response to the crisis globally.

A dependence on carbon markets, a hope for some future technology to remove carbon and a dependence on private companies making private investment decisions; all are leading us to ruin globally.

If we are taking the IPCC and science seriously that we need to move beyond the promises and rhetoric to enact policies that show we get the seriousness of what's happening, concretely that means  we must stop the proliferation of Data centres, banning of LNGs and of fracked gas and set up state run renewable energy companies that can deliver the investment we need in off shore wind and other renewable energies, otherwise we will be here in 5 years talking about trying to stop temperature rises below 2 or 3 degrees."