Since COP26 the reasons for change are clear and profound. However, a recent paper by Prof Wim Thiery from Vrije Universitiet Brussel highlights a different framework to assess climate change by using a person’s lifespan instead of two separate time periods. In his paper he compares someone born in the 1960’s with someone who is born in 2020.
The results are staggering, and he discovers younger generations will face “unavoidable impacts that are unmatched by those experienced by older generations” over the course of their lives and are our first five reasons to rethink energy: