The past 12 months have seen our world enter new territory. Last year will go down as the first time that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial times over a calendar year. We could crash permanently through the 1.5C guardrail within the next five years, and shatter the 2C limit as soon as 2034. This will almost certainly result in the tipping points for collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets being crossed, committing us to the drowning of coastal towns and cities.
In years to come, we will look back at this time and ask the same question that future generations will ask: why didn't we stop this catastrophe? Meanwhile, the crackdown on those fighting to stop it began in earnest last year. One of us is locked up for five years alongside other peaceful citizens, simply for organising protests to block a motorway.
As a campaigner and a climate scientist, we have come together to say this to you: we are heartbroken, we are devastated, but most of all we are absolutely furious that our political class and our judiciary are betraying our country, and the lives and livelihoods of our children and many generations still to come.
But we are not done yet. We need to make 2025 the year that scientists, activists and all who care about the future of our planet mobilise together, to demand that our leaders, and governments around the world,
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