In an interview with the Guardian UK Mr. Hansen shares, "The situation we're creating for young people and future generations is that we're handing them a climate system which is potentially out of their control," he said. "We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction."

Climate change he argues is ‘a great moral issue on par with slavery’. Professor Jim Hansen was one of the first to build a global climate change model and is credited as being one of the most influential people in the world raising awareness of climate change.

They (China) don't want to follow the path of the US where the country becomes addicted to fossil fuel and has to protect the supply lines around the world. They have taken the right first step. They are now the number one producer of solar cells, wind and nuclear power."