<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=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);" class=""><br class=""></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" class="">There’s “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” today, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) insisted in a new report</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129912" class="">https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129912</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Elizabeth Kolbert:</b> "</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> And I think the point that Bill has made, and I agree with it, is<b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">maybe</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class=""> </b>we can avoid the worst possible future. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">But I don’t think at this point we can avoid a lot, a lot, a lot of damage.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Bill McKibben:</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">“Look, Betsy’s right. </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">So we’re not playing for stopping climate change. We’re playing</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">maybe </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">for being able to slow it down to the point where it doesn’t make civilizations impossible.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">That’s an open question. There are scientists who tell you we’re already past that point. The consensus, at least for the moment, is that we’ve got a narrow and closing window, but that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">if we move with everything we have,</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class=""> then,</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> <b class="">perhaps,</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> we’ll be able to squeeze a fair amount of our legacy through it. But Betsy is right, an already very difficult century is going to become a lot harder no matter what we do. It’s at this point trying to keep it from becoming not a difficult and even miserable century but a literally impossible one.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert-on-the-un-extinction-report" class="">https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert-on-the-un-extinction-report</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 25, 31);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The term refers to situations in society that contain</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> traps formally like a fish trap,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">no easy way to back out of or to avoid."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</span></div></body></html>