The Last Chance
By Jeffrey Sachs
What if the fate of the world depends on worldwide decisions to be made by the end of 2015, yet few people know and even fewer care? I am not talking about a Hollywood blockbuster, like Russell Crowe’s struggle in Noah, but about something not so different. Instead of one great flood, humanity faces the likelihood that major weather disasters – extreme floods, droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes – will become far more frequent than in the past, disrupting food supplies, public health, economic growth and jobs around the world. Our last chance to avoid such a dangerous fate may be just around the corner, in Paris in December 2015.