![]() The United States can and must address this crisis by putting people to work building the necessary infrastructure to overcome the threat and confronting the economic, racial, social injustices and inequalities that persist today. The United States has faced and overcome challenges that, at the time, were unprecedented, including working as a nation to go to the moon, electrifying rural America, and eradicating smallpox. ![]() To meet this challenge, the president must organize the whole of government, and Congress must break through deeply entrenched gridlock to enact and execute a sweeping program of legislation. 6 Every year of continued emissions raises the peak temperatures that carbon pollution will inflict, threatening destruction that can never be undone.Īs the IPCC special report warned, the sheer scale of the challenge now facing the world has no precedent in all of human history. 5 The differences between the previous target of 2 degrees and the new target of 1.5 degrees of global warming are startling, including greater harm to food and water supplies major and potentially irreversible loss of ecosystems, such as the world’s fragile coral reefs a higher rate of sea level rise and irreparable loss or collapse of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. It exacerbates systemic economic and racial inequality and simultaneously threatens public health national security the safety and well-being of communities and the strength of the economy.Ī year ago, in October 2018, the issue took on new urgency when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a stark appraisal of the latest climate science: Humanity has only three decades to completely reinvent the global economy in order to eliminate net greenhouse gas pollution and hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Climate change is a crisis that touches every element of our society. military warns that climate change will multiply the national security threats facing the country. economy by as much as 10 percent, or $500 billion-almost double the cost of the 2009 Great Recession. 3 By the end of the century, crop damage, lost labor, and extreme weather threaten to shrink the U.S. 2 Natural disasters have cost the United States more than $450 billion in the past three years and are projected to cost $54 trillion globally by 2040. 1 Public health experts warn that climate change threatens the quality of America’s air and water. The impacts of climate change have already been deadly: More than 3,000 Americans have died in weather- and climate-related disasters in the past two years. ![]() Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the United States-and the world-over the next decade and beyond. ![]()
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