Irish Examiner view: What can you do to help prevent climate collapse?

Few people can now dispute the science of climate change. Picture: Getty Images

THE alarm on climate change is sounding once again, but is anybody listening? 

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report and the picture it paints is a darker shade of grey. Without immediate and deep reductions in carbon emissions across all sectors of society and the economy, limiting global warming to the crucial 1.5 degrees “is beyond reach”, the UN convened body concludes.