Yesterday I read David Wallace-Wells’ piece in The New York Times Magazine, “Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View.” It was a good overview, though he had one grammar error, left out three essential items, and showed “optimism” I can’t share. Specifically, the grammar error was a missed question mark as in [Nigerian American philosopher Olufemi O. Taiwo asked,] “The deciding thing will be, what is it that global south countries are prepared to do if these [‘reparations’/’debt relief’] demands aren’t met[?]” Three things left out were the estimated nearly eleven billion snow crab that likely died from one or more heat-related reasons off Alaska from 2018 to 2021, and former Harvard Fellow Ye Tao’s two comments, “two degrees is already passed [no matter what we do]” and “At three degrees C [ above year 1850 baseline] we’re talking about planetary scale biological annihilation of any multicellular species [ . . . ]”
Wallace-Wells’ article noted, “John Kerry, the American climate envoy, has acknowledged, perhaps inadvertently, that the cost of climate damage in the global south is already in the ‘trillions’ — a number he cited not to illustrate the need for support but to explain why nations in the global north wouldn’t pay. (He added that he refused to feel guilty about it.)” Yes, it may be in the ”trillions,” but Kerry could have been born in the global south, and possibly will be next time. I’m serious. See this 2-min video Reincarnation in the Tibetan Tradition.
My question to King Charles III regarding his absence from COP27 is “Seriously?”
António Guterres, please consider hiking with David Wallace-Wells, John Kerry, and King Charles III to help them along.
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