"We’re running out of time now."
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...We are seeing water shortages, more and longer droughts; farmers are struggling to produce food. Deserts are growing. Pollution is a terrible problem.
Another process which we see is the growing and unsustainable gap and polarization between rich and poor. Look, too, at the levels of poverty and overcrowding in many of the world’s largest cities.
So, if you take any one of these and other processes, and look at the real facts and then extrapolate from them, it is clear that we cannot go on in this way. It is impossible. That’s why I, and many others, say that we have reached a crucial moment and it is more than high time for fundamental change. The problem is that some experts and some politicians think we can still deal with each problem separately. They believe that we can take one issue at a time and solve that, then the next and so on. ...