Well, a new report came out this week from the world meteorological organization that
said there is a 50% chance. So we're at a 50 50 chance that in the next five years, we could see
warming across the globe hit 1.5 degrees Celsius in five years. And that 1.5 degree Celsius
temperature increase. Even though they tell us at this point, it would be a temporary increase,
right? It would come back down. But that 1.5 degree Celsius temperature increase is
what the world was supposed to aim to not exceed really not even meet by the end of the century.
And now they're telling us based on climate models, there's a 50,
50 chance. We hit it in the next five years, at least temporarily, but once we hit it, we'll keep
hitting it and eventually exceed it. Right. We have to stay below that. Two degrees Celsius
in global temperature warming, right? 1.5 degrees is kind of like if we could just keep it to that,
we may avoid some of the absolute worst effects, but we're still gonna see bad
effects from 1.5 degrees warming, right? We could see mass die offs. We could see oceans,
you know, warming to the point where we have mass die offs in the ocean.
We would have climate refugees cuz that amount of warming would in fact, raise ocean levels.
People in coastal communities would be forced out. It would be catastrophic to put it mildly.
And we could hit that even at not a sustained pace within five years, 50, 50 chance, right?
It's a coin toss. Maybe we do. Maybe we don't. And that's, to me what's so terrifying
about this is things are so screwy with our emissions, with global emissions, you know,
with who's leading which country and are, do they, you know, wanna tackle climate change?
Do they wanna pretend it's not happening? That's the worst part of all of it because no country
can go it alone on climate change, right? Even if the United States is like, Hey, guess what?
We're switching to a hundred percent renewables in the next two or three years. No more fossil fuels
here in this country. Wonderful. That's gonna do a lot to help reduce the chances of warming,
but we still got other major polluters out there. Like this is kind of an all or nothing thing. It's
great that we have countries in Europe that are moving to renewables and they're doing it at a
phenomenal pace, right? They have, they're killing us on getting to renewable energy
and every reduction does help. Don't get me wrong about that at all. And if the United States did go
a hundred percent renewable, we would probably not hit those dangerous climate marks of the warming,
but we'd still have more pollution
To deal with coming from other countries. We would have those emissions. We would have to help
them. And that's the thing. This climate change should not be seen as this looming catastrophe
instead how businesses should view this is a massive opportunity, right? You could make a
ton of money and, and I know that's probably the wrong thing to focus on, but that's all businesses
care about. So let's start appealing to that. You wanna be the next Elon moer, Jeff Bezos, wonderful
start building green technology that blows the rest of it outta the water
and then sell it on the global market. You know, sell it to China, sell it to India.
Use it here in the United States, get these big government contracts,
do it and become the richest person on the planet. Right? And you also save the planet
in the process. I don't know how else to appeal to people, to get them to care about this issue.
The clock is ticking. We haven't run out of time yet.
That's the one thing we can be hopeful about. We are not out of time,
but that doesn't mean that we don't have to act fast. This is a brilliant opportunity for any, you
know, business leader out there that wants to go this route. You could basically corner the market.
At least here, the United States make a lot of money for yourself while also saving the planet.
But we're stuck in that old way of thinking, right? Nobody wants to move forward. Nobody
wants to take that big leap and we'd all just rather sit here and pretend it's not happening as
that ocean water starts pooling around our ankles because we ignored the problem for far too long.