be doomed

"Otherwise, we will be doomed," she said.

The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions.

It says successive governments have put too much emphasis on the cost of reforming the system, and future plans will be doomed to fail unless the government understands and measures the "cost of inaction".

“I was thinking about people I’d lost, and thinking, what exactly do you feel when you die, when you drop this body that you live in? Is there nothing, not even a consciousness? We don’t know. It could be wonderful, or we could all be doomed, but we can think about that because we’re here now. What’s the best use of our very limited time on our planet?”

Attempts to prolong the life in its current form of a company laid low by years of under-investment, overgenerous pay and dividends, poor regulation and changing climate may be doomed.