<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Nature August 14, 2019 </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">EDITORIAL </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02425-7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02425-7</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Teenage activists and an IPCC triumph</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a well-timed blueprint for action. Decision makers must now pay attention — </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class=""><i class="">a nascent youth movement is showing them how.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpt</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Young people care about climate</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">As each of the UN conventions faces continuing challenges, the IPCC can at least be assured of support from the next generation</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">. It has garnered a following among the growing international youth climate movement. Members keenly absorb every new report, including participants in the school strike for climate, led by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thunberg makes a point of name checking the IPCC and quoting paragraph and page numbers in speeches, as she did in an address to the French parliament at the end of last month.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">As government delegates get ready for Delhi, Nairobi and New York, they must prepare to answer why, if children can understand the meaning of the IPCC assessments, adults cannot do the same?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The youth climate movement’s members are brave, and they are right.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> It has been almost three decades since the three UN conventions — on biodiversity, climate and desertification — were agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. And it has been 31 years since the IPCC was created to advise decision makers. Yet environmental promises have not been matched by meaningful action.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Politicians must act </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">now</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Nature</i> <b class="">572</b>, 283 (2019)</span></p><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. <br class="">The term refers to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, </span><br class="">where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some <br class="">set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see <br class="">no easy way to back out of or to avoid."<br class=""><br class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> at risk of major transformation.”</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science 31 August 2018 </span></div></div></div>
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