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No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth
(the-guardian-blog, 27 Sep 2016) he Paris climate change agreement is worthless. Politicians can’t possibly honour it unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves.
D o they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments such as ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change , haven’t the faintest idea what it means – either that or they have no intention of honouring it.
For the first time we can see the numbers on which the agreement depends, and their logic is inescapable. Governments can either meet their international commitments or allow the prospecting and development of new fossil fuel reserves. They cannot do both.
The Paris agreement, struck by 200 nations in December, pledged to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels”, and aspired to limit it to 1.5C. So what does this mean? Thanks to a report by Oil Change International , we can now answer this question with a degree of precision.
the-guardian-blog, 27 Sep 2016: No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth 
