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Designing The Revolution | Chapter 2 | The Situation

Designing the Revolution

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The Importance of 1.5 Degrees

David King: There are a bunch of different like tipping points, but I'll just briefly mention to them. We will lose the ability to stop the Arctic from melting because it will be off it on its way regardless of what we do. The Amazon according to peer reviewed papers will be unable to maintain itself as an ecological system when 20 to 25% have been cut down around. This is not negotiable. It's 101 physics. And if we go over to 1.5 degrees, we're done for, we'll have billions of deaths," he says.

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