Untold Suffering

An article published in BioScience with 11,258 scientist signatories from 153 countries issues a warning.

We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency. To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we live. [This] entails major transformations in the ways our global society functions and interacts with natural ecosystems.

Recommendations include:

Use energy far more efficiently and apply strong carbon taxes to cut fossil fuel use
Stabilize global population – currently growing by 200,000 people a day – using ethical approaches such as longer education for girls
End the destruction of nature and restore forests and mangroves to absorb carbon dioxide
Eat mostly plants and less meat, and reduce food waste
Shift economic goals away from GDP growth

Update (November 17):  A report published in The Lancet describes the public health impacts of climate change.

Update (February 23, 2020):  A paper published in Nature Energy by Paul Griffin finds that extreme weather events pose a severe economic risk.

If the market doesn't do a better job of accounting for climate, we could have a recession—the likes of which we've never seen before.