19. Sustainability or survival

A new scientific report by the World Bank called "Turn Down the Heat" says the world is heading down a path to heat up by 4 degrees (keeping in mind the scientific world thinks we should remain below 2 degrees) at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of major changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people. President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim says the world must tackle the problem of climate change more aggressively. It seems to me we are shifting from a discussion on sustainability to that of survival. Perhaps this might jolt us into action!