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I’m thinking that perhaps Mary Robinson, past president of Ireland, which is one of the worst EU nations on “carbon pollution”, and who spends a lot of time taking fossil fueled trips, might not be the best messenger of doom

Climate Change: standing at a crossroads for “our very humanity” says Mary Robinson

The existential threat of climate change has left the world standing at a crossroads for “our very humanity”, Mary Robinson said at a UN conference last weekend.

Speaking at a side meeting of the ongoing high-level UN forum on the Sustainable Development Goals in New York, Mary Robinson said that expert warnings of a potential three to four-degree increase in global temperature are “very scary”.

The former President, who runs her own climate justice foundation, said in her opening comments that we are now “living through challenging times” due to the “existential threat” posed by climate change.

“As such, we stand at a crossroads for our very humanity,” she warned. “In the face of a challenge so great, it is easy to feel helpless… We need to support each other in order to move forward.”