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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.
Long, informative, definitely worth a read - and depressing.
If natural climate fails to deliver water, and neigbours claw away what they can while it's upstream - this means either desalination, condensing water out of air (I would prefer if this technology was needed on Mars)... or just retreating from a place where nothing worthwhile can be done.