{Earth}Last Warning: climate lost control after 12 years

For a long time, scientists have been sounding the alarm that climate change is heating up the planet, and that if we don't do something about it, our planet and human beings and other life on earth will be destroyed, and the time left to save the planet is numbered. The international community and many governments have pledged to take action to protect the planet and slow the rate of warming.

Meanwhile, the situation continues to deteriorate. The extreme summer heat in many parts of the world in 2018 has given rise to a frightening concept: Hothouse Earth -- a world that could become a giant "hot room" if temperatures rise another two degrees Celsius, triggering a series of catastrophic changes.

The meeting of the United Nations intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) sounded the alarm, the "final warning", declaring that global warming will trigger a climate and ecological disaster, leaving humanity with little time to resolve the crisis.

With 12 years left, it will be too late to act.

The climate issue is so urgent and important that it even won the Nobel Prize. The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded on October 8 to two American economists for their unique contributions to solving the climate change puzzle, one for climate economics and the other for healthy, sustainable economic growth rates.



What can individuals do?

Since action is urgent, where to start? The world needs rapid and profound change in four areas: energy, land use, cities and industry.
 
Individuals can start with basic necessities of life.
Specifically, Dr Deborah Roberts, co-chair of the IPCC, says individuals may not be able to decide how land is used and what it is planted, but they can decide what they want at the dinner table.

Individuals can decide whether to walk, bike or drive, and if so, choose electric, hybrid, gasoline or diesel, or take the bus.

Saving electricity and gas is also within one's power: use clotheslines, avoid dryers, air conditioners, lower heating temperatures, solar water heaters if possible, and so on.

The table can be less meat and dairy products, more fruits and vegetables; Buy local produce and seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Recycling, saving water, sharing and reminding each other are all personal.