by Hayley Jarick, CEO Supply Chain Sustainability School
Climate change is a social problem.
The science is clear. Since the industrial revolution, humans have emitted gases into the atmosphere at rates that have been the primary cause of the global average temperature rise of 1.1 deg C. I’ve seen a lot of graphics on what that change looks like. Heat maps. Waterfall graphs. Footprints. Black balloons. But on Mother’s Day this year, I looked at my son and daughter and the face of climate change was revealed. How many generations did it take to raise global surface temperature by 1.1 deg C? How many mothers have there been in your lineage? How short has the era been to change our ways to disregard respect for the balance of nature? How soon could we change those short-lived habits? Some quick maths… 130ish years… my estimated average age of mothers at the time of childbirth is 22ish years… and the face of 1 deg C warming is 6 mothers. Climate change is a social problem.
The cause of global warming is clear. The knowledge to mitigate it is available. I have spent the last five years working with leading organisations to build industry capability to measure and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We don’t need more research. We don’t need to plan. We need to act. We need to act together in collaboration with others in a coalition of the willing. Changing the way we collectively act is a social challenge. Climate change is a social problem.
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