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“This is our Children’s Climate Crossroads.” – Barnabe Geis

Barnabe Geis is the Director of CSI’s Climate Ventures, an incubator for climate entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders. He recently published a piece in the National Observer called Our Children’s Climate Crossroads. It is part personal essay, part climate primer, and part call to action.

Here is an excerpt:

We are facing a world devoid of coral reefs, a dying Amazon rainforest, frequent and worsening natural disasters, spreading disease, entire regions rendered nearly uninhabitable, a steep decline in agricultural outputs, economic downturn, and the displacement of millions of climate refugees. When I say ‘we’ it’s not some distant, amorphous ‘we.’ It’s you and me, and especially our children and grandchildren.

And yet, every single day we continue to dump 100 million tonnes of manmade global warming pollution into our atmosphere. And every year, air pollution kills seven million people worldwide, as our emissions constitute both a climate and health crisis.

Children are especially vulnerable to vector-borne diseases, waterborne diseases, heat stress, asthma, malnutrition, psychological stress, conflict, and homelessness, all of which are aggravated by climate change. Already, global hunger has regressed to levels last seen a decade ago due largely to extreme weather.

The good news is: at Climate Ventures, smart and talented people are collaborating on the solutions to climate change. If you want to see what that looks like, book a tour today!

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