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Planet of the Year / 1989

• https://time.com/5669069/time-climate-change-issue/

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(Updated: 2019)

The Fight for Earth / 2050

• https://time.com/climate-change-solutions/

September 2019

THIRTY YEARS AGO, in 1989, TIME named the endangered Earth Planet of the Year. It’s taken that long for the world to wake up to the reality.

Man-made climate change has thrown us headfirst into a true crisis that touches every part of the globe, and we can’t waste any time making systemic changes to the global economy, geopolitics, and culture if we want life on Earth to survive. Thirty years from now, we’ll look back at 2019 as another inflection point—whether good or bad is up to us.

TIME has brought together some the world’s leading thinkers on global warming to start (and recharge) conversations we need to have...

Visit time.com/2050 Climate Change Solutions... Explore the interconnectedness of climate with other major issues and track progress against the U.N.’s 2050 goals.

BILL MCKIBBEN IT’S 2050. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED FOREVER, BUT WE AVERTED THE WORST

AL GORE YOUTH ACTIVISTS ARE DEMANDING CHANGE AND WE SHOULD LISTEN

JANE GOODALL WE CAN STILL RECOVER IF WE GIVE OURSELVES A CHANCE

BAN KI-MOON CLIMATE-CHANGE ADAPTATION MIGHT BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MITIGATION

GRAÇA MACHEL HOW AFRICA CAN BE THE LAUNCHPAD FOR A GREEN-ENERGY REVOLUTION

BARBARA KINGSOLVER “GREAT BARRIER,” AN ORIGINAL POEM

ANNE HIDALGO PARIS’S PLANS FOR THE FIRST GREEN OLYMPICS

MA JUN HOW CHINA IS HANDLING ITS NEW ROLE AS GLOBAL CLIMATE-CHANGE LEADER

PETER THOMSON WHAT TO DO ABOUT WARMING OCEANS

HIRO MIZUNO HOW MAKING FINANCIAL DECISIONS CAN HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

MICHAEL MANN LIFESTYLE CHANGES AREN’T ENOUGH TO SAVE THE PLANET

ADRIENNE HOLLIS WE NEED TO CONSIDER CLIMATE CHANGE A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY

ANDREW BLUM CAN WE INNOVATE OUR WAY OUT OF THIS CRISIS?

RANDALL MUNROE NOT ALL GREEN-ENERGY IDEAS ARE CREATED EQUAL

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