Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- David Attenborough spoke Monday at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP24.
- The annual summit is designed to help the international community reach agreements on how to curb climate change.
- The U.S. pulled out of the Paris accord in 2017 and President Donald Trump will not attend the summit, though reports suggest he’s sending energy and climate advisor Wells Griffith to hold a side event promoting fossil fuels.
Civilizations will collapse and much of the natural world will go extinct unless the world takes action on climate change, David Attenborough said Monday at the United Nations summit on climate change in Poland.
“Right now we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Attenborough was speaking at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP24. The annual summit takes places this year from…
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