How to pronounce "deviate"

floods in China, Bangladesh and India.

We're now enduring heat waves across the entire northern hemisphere.

We risk crossing tipping points

that shift the planet from being our best resilient friend,

dampening our impacts,

to start working against us, amplifying the heat.

For the first time, we are forced to consider the real risk

of destabilizing the entire planet.

Our children can see this.

They are walking out of school to demand action,

looking with disbelief at our inability to deviate away

from potentially catastrophic risks.

The next 10 years, to 2030,

must see the most profound transformation the world has ever known.

This is our mission.

This is the countdown.

(Clock ticks)

When my scientific colleagues summarized, about a decade ago,

for the first time,

the state of knowledge on climate tipping points,

just one place had strong evidence that it was on a serious downward spiral.