Greta Thunberg speaks in Katowice: ”Our leaders behave like children”

For 25 years countless people have stood in front of the United Nations climate conferences, asking our nation's leaders to stop the emissions. But, clearly, this has not worked since the emissions just continue to rise.

Greta Thunberg.

So I will not ask them anything.

Instead, I will ask the media to start treating the crisis as a crisis. 

Instead, I will ask the people around the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us.

Because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness.

Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions by at least 15% every year to reach the 2-degree warming target. You would think the media and every one of our leaders would be talking about nothing else – but no one ever even mentions it.

Read the report from COP-24 - “Greta Thunberg speaks in Katowice: ”Our leaders behave like children”.”

Devastation as typhoon Jebi's toll rises

Tokyo: At least 11 people have been killed and about 600 injured as Typhoon Jebi ripped through Japan, the most powerful storm to hit the country in 25 years.

Overturned cars are seen on street following
powerful typhoon Jebi in Osaka, western Japan.

The deaths included a man in his 70s who was blown to the ground from his apartment in Osaka prefecture. Police said five others died elsewhere in the prefecture after being hit by flying objects or falling from their apartments.

In nearby Shiga prefecture, a 71-year-old man died when a storage building collapsed on him, and a man in his 70s died after falling from a roof in Mie, officials said.

Read the story from today’s Age - “Devastation as typhoon Jebi's toll rises.”

Capturing Somalia’s Climate Calamity

Photographer Nichole Sobecki, along with writer Laura Heaton, spent years documenting parts of Somalia, a country traumatized by over 25 years of conflict and ravaged by climate change.

 As Sobecki put it, “In a generation, parts of Somalia went from being semi-arid to desert, fueling conflict and pushing one of the world’s most resilient communities to the brink.”

Read and take a  look at - “Capturing Somalia’s Climate Calamity.”