Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

by Hannah Ritchie

there has been a miscommunication about what our climate targets – of 1.5°C and 2°C – actually mean. It is wrong to think of these as thresholds – that as soon as we pass 1.5°C, we’re toast. That’s not true. There is nothing special about the number 1.5°C;