Covid-19 has provided a crucial opportunity to make drastic changes to tackle climate change, experts behind this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures have said. For Jackson, the lectures bring the opportunity to set out how the climate has changed over the planet’s 4.5bn-year history. “Are we going to say the Anthropocene was the time that humans destroyed the planet,” Shine said. “What’s happening now is that systems are having to change.”“Covid is a restart button,” Shine said. “The scientists and the policymakers who are concerned about climate change are extremely sympathetic to the massive suffering a huge number of people have had through this pandemic,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2020 06:00 UTC