Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

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The first law of humanity is not to kill your children. by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

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humanity law children

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human... by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

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differences humans world

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

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climate change people

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

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transformation transition novel

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

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We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or clima... by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

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carbon-emissions environmental years

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

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global-warming earth people

In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed.

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cutting people thinking

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

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Like no other force on the planet, ice ages have shaped the globa... by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Like no other force on the planet, ice ages have shaped the global environment.

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environment

The bottom billion people don’t contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilized.

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environment

In the end I think it’s a moral decision whether we want to get this transformation going over the next decades or not. This is about a global social movement.

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environment

The scientist who knows absolutely enough about the risk we face should be willing to make recommendations now.

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energy

It will not be a piece of cake, it would be perhaps comparable to what the United States did in the Second World War - they changed their economy to producing tanks rather than automobiles.

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energy