OPINION: What we do in the next 10 years will determine what kind of future will be faced by future generations or whether they will have one at all, writes Kumi Naidoo.
ON AUGUST 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its sixth report, which prompted the UN Secretary General to declare a “code red for humanity”.
This is the most consequential decade for humanity so far. What we do in the next 10 years will determine what kind of future will be faced by future generations or whether they will have one at all. Fortunately, IPCC scientists believe there is time, though the window of opportunity is small and fast closing. Unfortunately, if we are too late; the ecosystem will not wait for us to get our collective act together, and with climate change, we are running against a clock that is ticking mercilessly.
The longer Eskom, Sasol and South Africa, as a nation, delay, the more we jeopardise our present and future. The most successful companies and countries in the future will be those that embrace and get as far ahead of the green technology curve now. It is astonishing to see the backward thinking in the Ministry of Energy. The Karpowership disaster is just one example of a combination of corruption and backward thinking. The idea of going back to nuclear energy is also a crazy option when all the studies highlight the capability of addressing all our needs with the cheapest electricity available in the form of renewable energy.
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