As images of the earth from space rolled on giant screens, members of the International Space Station crew, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, made a passionate appeal to the CoP21 Climate Conference to adopt a strong agreement that will stop the destruction of the earth.
Joined by several astronauts and cosmonauts, the two visitors on the ISS said the destruction of earth visible from space in the form of deforestation, wild fires and pollution only underlines the urgent necessity to have a climate deal.
The video message from the ISS, including comments from India's Rakesh Sharma, who was a cosmonaut on a Soyuz spacecraft to Salyut 7 space station in 1984, was played at the 'Action Day' in Paris at the UNFCCC conference.
So dire is the world's situation, said Johan Rockstrom, Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, that the crisis in Syria was triggered by drought during 2007-10. Sea level rise would be inescapable, even with a one degree rise in temperature over pre-industrial times. Scientific evidence shows that unless strong action is taken immediately, people could not hope to continue living in conditions that have made the earth stable and habitable for the past 10,000 years.
