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A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Western Civilization
(www.nytimes.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:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
There are coal, oil, and gas deposits yet unburned. There are forests still standing. Every tenth of a degree matters. We didn't prevent all damage, but the fight is far from over.
I'm going to do every bit I can