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Canada wildfires: thousands told to flee in British Columbia
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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I live near Kelowna and was vacationing in Sorrento. This is crazy, you cannot escape the smoke and everywhere I go there is people losing homes and being evacuated. Fuck people who deny climate change. I grew up here and there have been more fires in the past few years then there was the first 25 years on my life.