Global climate losses have climbed past $400 billion a year. And while Tesla now extracts enough lithium to build more than 1.8 million electric cars annually, the world still struggles to answer a simple question: are we actually healing the planet, or just shifting the damage somewhere out of sight?
If the Earth were a patient lying on a doctorβs table, what would the diagnosis look like today? Would a doctor gently say, βYouβre doing fine,β or would she lean in and say what no one wants to hear: βYour vital signs are failing. You need serious treatment β ββ now.β
I lean toward the latter. Whether we choose to admit it or not, the planet is showing the symptoms of a system under severe stress β climate, biodiversity, freshwater, food security and even the global economy are all connected organs in the same body. And COP30, held in Belem, was where the world gathered to decide whether we would finally act like responsible doctors ...
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