Detailed guidelines required on how to behave in the climate emergency

MORE THAN 11,000 SCIENTISTS from 153 countries have sounded the alarm on climate change. In a paper published last week in the journal BioScience, they've signed a declaration stating "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency, saying that if no profound and lasting changes are made, the world will face untold suffering. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Science speaks with evidence. And the evidence the scientists laid out is testimony to the undeniable truth that human activities are causing global warming from the fast rise of fossil fuel consumption to dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions over the past 40 years.

The scientists also gave a prescription to try to reverse the seemingly irreversible trend, proposing six actions to prevent the most catastrophic scenarios: stabilizing population growth by investing in family-planning services and girls' education; replacing fossil fuels, cutting the emissions of climate pollutants such as methane and soot, eating less meat, restoring and protecting ecosystems, and building a carbon-free economy.