Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 9 months ago
Naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham says that "enormous misinformation" is being spread about the climate crisis, as he convenes an emergency meeting of leading scientists and economic and security experts to warn about the urgent need to address the climate crisis. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Transcript
00:00I'm here today to, you know, help give a platform to a group of eminent scientists and experts who are going to tell us the truth about the crisis that we face.
00:10Because at the moment there's an enormous surfeit of misinformation circulating.
00:14The fact that there isn't a climate crisis, that the whole thing's a hoax, and this is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:21So, these are some climate scientists, but they're not going to be talking about rises in temperature and extreme weather events.
00:29They're going to be talking about how this crisis is impacting ordinary people in the UK.
00:33So that's health, that's food security, food pricing, food production, that's national and global security.
00:41Because climate breakdown and biodiversity loss is not just about flooding and heat and animals disappearing from distant rainforests.
00:49It's about the impact that it's having here in the UK.
00:51And we need to impress upon our governors, those people that we've elected who will be here this morning, the urgency to address that.
00:58And also the opportunities that they have to invest in that for this country.
01:03This country.
01:04This country.
01:05This country.
Comments

Recommended