CO2 is a greenhouse gas that can remain in the atmosphere for several decades. So, the climate change we are witnessing today is the result of the greenhouse gas emissions produced several decades ago.
I want to repeat that I am not a scientist. On the other hand, I can tell you what the scientific studies say about that. And here I'm not talking about opinions published in the newspapers, but of scientific papers—in other words, scientific articles published in periodicals that have a reading committee, like Science & Nature, and many others. The consensus is that the longer we delay lowering greenhouse gas emissions, the worse the environmental legacy we will leave to our children and grandchildren. And ultimately, we are dumping the problem in their backyard. We are basically washing our hands of the whole issue.