Dr. James Hansen and his oldest grandchild Sophie Kivlehan discuss the Young People’s Burden, which outlines how—if national governments neglect to take aggressive climate action today—today’s young people will inherit a climate system so altered it will require prohibitively expensive—and possibly infeasible—extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.
For more information, visit: http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/10/04/young-peoples-burden/