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What is the great challenge at COP26, seen as a historic opportunity to change course and prevent a future reality that some describe as catastrophic?

This is what José Levy talks about in the new episode of

The objective is clear: to save the world… from ourselves.

And it is that a limit reality is reached.

The last time our planet earth reached the current levels of carbon dioxide, key in global warming, it was not 100 years ago, not 1,000 or 10,000 ... It was, listen, about 4 million years ago.

According to the World Meteorological Organization, then the temperature was two or three degrees Celsius higher than now;

that's all, but the sea level was ten or twenty meters higher.

Can you imagine the coastal areas, for example?

Is that the course of humanity now?

The United Nations warns that, if nothing were done, the increase in global temperature until the end of the century would not be one and a half degrees, as is now being claimed, but about three degrees Celsius;

two point seven to be precise.

Similar to four million years ago?

Ufff!

Maybe yes.

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Greetings, this is José Levy in a new episode of the CNN

podcast

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In the coming days, international leaders gather in Glasgow, Scotland, at the so-called COP26 climate summit to address a situation so extreme that even the UN itself published a totally unusual video in which not a politician, but a dinosaur bursts onto the stage. of the General Assembly of this international organization to warn human beings that what happened to them, former owners and lords of the planet, does not happen: that is, extinction.

And is that global warming not only means that perhaps we can go to the beach more.

Have you noticed what is happening around us?

On the one hand, infernal forest fires, prolonged droughts, thinning ice sheets.

And on the other, floods, hurricanes, typhoons.

As if the world has gone crazy.

Crazy, I don't know, but what it does seem to be in command are perhaps serious warnings, that, please, let's watch over the future before it's too late, because the reality of the planet is changing, the current one and even more that of our descendants. .

Experts warn: We must act urgently, although it is perhaps not something attractive for many politicians who have to present concrete economic results to their respective electorates and that more than prevent what may happen in ten years or to the next generation, what It is urgent for them to show that the economy is now working well.

Then let the flood come if you want.

Sad but too many times it is like that.

Listen to the rest on the podcast.

Well.

So far this podcast, I await your comments on

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Next week we will continue with more

that present us this terrible or wonderful precious corner of the universe where we lived.

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