TBT: When Hubert Reeves was sounding the alarm about climate change

This was almost 10 years ago. Worried about the fate of humanity, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves was sounding the alarm about the climate crisis. #tbt

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00:00I have children and grandchildren, and I'm really worried about knowing what world they're going to live in.

00:07We can see that this erosion of biodiversity threatens humanity itself.

00:13That's what we're aware of today.

00:15And what's interesting is to see that this awareness has now reached the level of decision-makers.

00:21We're already in this crisis, which means that at the age of 20 or 30,

00:27we can ask ourselves, what are we going to eat tonight?

00:30We've said for a long time that ecology was a thing of the rich.

00:35We now realize that this is not so true.

00:38We are affected by these things.

00:40Unfortunately, the ones who are most affected are the poor.

00:44Why not talk about a point of no return when it comes to the human condition?

00:49What's happening is that it's becoming more and more difficult to get things going again.