00:04Our planet has a delicate ecosystem that has been thrown into absolute chaos due to humankind's
00:09reliance on fossil fuels. Now a new report has found that of the eight planetary boundaries
00:14which include things like climate, surface and groundwater, as well as atmospheric compositional
00:19gases, Earth is now at a point where when fairness and justice is accounted for with regards to all
00:23populations, it technically fails seven of those eight. This new approach doesn't simply look at
00:28our planet as a single ecosystem and humans as a single community. Rather, it looks at how different
00:33communities around the world pollute and how they are affected by degraded planetary conditions.
00:38For instance, according to the report, boundaries like aerosols put a large number of individuals at
00:42risk, with vulnerable groups being affected disproportionately more while polluting less.
00:47Water scarcity is also going to affect billions of people within the next few decades, with
00:51similar groups being affected despite not being the biggest polluters. The study indicates that in
00:55order to keep things equitable and to not disproportionately cause negative climate
00:59effects for the most vulnerable, the two degrees Celsius climate goals aren't enough.
01:03According to the new report, we would need to limit climate change to just one degree Celsius.
01:07The only problem is that 2023 is already expected to pass that number,
01:11with a projected 1.2 degrees Celsius global temperature increase this year.
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