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Time Running Out For Action: John Kerry on Climate Change

Time Running Out For Action: John Kerry on Climate Change

by The Daily Eye Team October 12 2014, 5:59 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday issued a stark warning about the mounting effects of climate change, from food shortages to devastating droughts, saying time was running out for real action. Kerry said the window for facing the challenge was "closing quickly" and warned of dire consequences if climate change skeptics are wrong about the future and nothing is done. "If they're wrong, catastrophe," Kerry said in Boston after visiting a wind-technology testing center with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. "Life as you know it on Earth ends. Seven degrees increase Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and we can't sustain crops, water, and life under those circumstances."

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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