Paris Climate Summit: The Final Trumpet

Will the world ever have another opportunity of saving the earth resembling that which was presented before 196 countries at the just concluded climate gathering in France?

For more than a century, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC has endeavored to unite countries to a common cause towards forging an agreement on combating global climate change. Since 2000, global average temperatures have been on the rise and macroclimate scientists makes no secret in revealing that July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded in history ever since recording began more than 126 years ago, and if this trend can’t be checked, we could be heading to hell of extinction.

In fact, US president Barrack Obama also recognised that climate change is the “biggest threat of the 21^st century” during his opening key note address in the Paris meeting. Extreme climatic conditions, according to NASA, such as sea level rise, high daily temperatures, floods and draught have caused more than 100,000 million deaths worldwide. And this is attributed mainly to the changing face of the earth owing to greenhouse gas emissions which increases global average temperatures.

Before the actual water wars begin when all icebergs have molten swamping all spots on the earth, and before even a sign that human beings can no longer help but wait on NASA’s great evacuation to mars, the dream of restoring the natural order of the earth and its ecosystems is something “not for another generation” as Obama likes putting it. And if any milestone has so far been achieved, then Paris remains the most significant.

Bringing together nearly 200 countries to speak with one voice, and accept the realism there is urgent need, despite diverse capitalistic fancies engendering damaging productivities, to cut national carbon emissions was something not a far cry from some of the boundaries constantly crossed by our philosophical and scientific gist.

Think about it. Is NASA hiding something? Does UNFCCC know something we don’t? Or maybe there is a hotter conspiracy theory. No.

Greenies, I’m not issuing out another Hollywood featuring NASA, neither am I seeing a second Holy Grail. I have just drawn boundless inspiration from the way humanity is finally accepting the responsibility to save their common home that seldom had been a concern during the first industrial revolution by our comatose forefathers - whose costs of pollution were carried forward to our generation heavily.

“We need a second industrial revolution!” says a study The Science published by World Nuclear Association, noticing the wisdom with which humanity could escape global warming considering the technological capacities that do not emit carbon into the atmosphere.

Developing clean energy systems such as worldwide adoption of solar to tap natural and abundant sun’s energy and source of all live; by so doing, the answer to the much lamented question of global warming might be the sun. Just like wind is estimated to deliver 7000,000 megawatts of electricity if fully exploited.

What if one day the world wakes up in a horror of oil and natural gas depletion? Will you have courage to demand that your government put solar cars on roads? But this is the change occurring in developed countries like UK, Australia and Germany already! BBC recently reported that England wants 3000 electric cars on roads by 2018 while reports in early 2014 revealed that ‘solar cars hit roads in Russia.’

Believe it or not, this isn’t yet another good spell of destiny. Not even the brainchildren of solely well-paid throng of experts possessing United Nations gavels.

Everyone and everything alive needs the globe to cool. The Paris Accord gallantly ensures all nations will speed up a transition to a 100 per cent renewable future. This Agreement is trumpeting every nation to adapt and protect themselves from climate impacts.

This call is heard as far as every fabric making up humanistic instinct of survival, progression and avocation of human rights are concerned: the safety of our children and children’s children. It’s simpler than timely realisation that before the helm becomes hotter, Paris presented the opportunity to alter course towards a dream island called ‘lasting solutions to the epidemic of global warming.’

AUTHOR: Boaz Opio
Climate Tracker, Kampala Uganda