The Earth is falling to pieces and it’s connected to climate change

Satya Tripathi wants you to see the Earth as a jigsaw puzzle. Not one where you have to put the pieces together to get the real picture, but one in which the puzzle is being dismantled before your eyes.

“Take a jigsaw puzzle of our planet, an amazing planet, and you’ll have amazing pieces to fit there. Rivers, oceans, land, people, 8 million species, and they all exist in perfect harmony. That’s nature’s jigsaw,” said Tripathi,  the Secretary-General of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet.

But “we are unraveling it piece by piece without even understanding what the picture is. So that’s the challenge for humanity. We really need to see the big picture,” he told FinTech TV’s Vince Molinari in a recent episode of The Impact.

Tripathi, who is also the chancellor at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and spent 20 years at the United Nations, warns that climate change is becoming more destructive.

“Until early last year, say a year ago, you would struggle to find any weatherman or weatherwoman really talking about atmospheric rivers or rivers in the sky, as some may call it. If you are not mindful of it, if you do not understand what it does to you, you will have the kind of disturbances that you are seeing now on the west coast of the United States,” he said.

“The disturbances, the global warming, will take it (the water) all away and pour it in places that neither have a drainage system nor the ability to process it in terms of absorbing capacity of the land. And that’s how you have these floods where roads and highways and bridges and everything literally washed away,” Tripathi told Molinari.

“It’s a challenge of where does the water fall and that you don’t control. That’s up to nature to decide. There’s all kinds of natural forces at play. You really don’t control it. So the best thing to do is prevent global warming.”

Tripathi also touched on COP 28, global temperatures and what governments can do to help in the interview. Watch the entire interview with Satya Tripathi.

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