126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises
in Climate Change — by Julia Conley — 04/06/2021
Editors Comments
What these leaders fail to disclose is that we are running out of all the NNRs materials and non-metallic minerals needed to maintain our industrial way of life by 2050. At that point, the global economic system will collapse. (see BLIP below) - Editor
A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts on Thursday called on the leaders of the G7 nations and the United Nations secretary-general to help put the global community on a path to establishing “a new relationship with the planet,” as the world continues to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and faces a coming decade which will be “decisive” in determining whether the Earth remains habitable.
Nobel Prize laureates including Leymah Gwobee, May-Britt Moser, and Joseph Stiglitz signed a statement titled “Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call to Action” ahead of the G7 Summit and following the first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, where winners of the annual awards discussed what can be done between now and 2030 “to put the world on a path to a more sustainable, more prosperous future for all.”
The laureates met amid the pandemic, a global crisis of inequality which was exacerbated and brought into stark relief by the public health emergency, ecological and climate crises, and an “information crisis.”
“These supranational crises are interlinked and threaten the enormous gains we have made in human progress,” said the signatories. “It is particularly concerning that the parts of the world projected to experience many of the compounding negative effects from global changes are also home to many of the world’s poorest communities, and to indigenous peoples.”
At the G7 Summit taking place in Cornwall, England starting on June 11, the laureates said, the leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nations must consider how all the current global crises are intertwined and how they can be mitigated during the Anthropocene—the current geological epoch in which “human societies are now the prime driver of change in Earth’s living sphere” and which is “likely to be characterized by speed, scale, and shock at global levels.”
