Why are we talking about anything but climate change?
"The notion that our ability to prevent this could slip from our control is equally misleading. We could prevent it right now if we were willing to make a substantive shift to clean energy, which we are technologically able to do."
“The panic, the fear that should be happening, isn’t happening”
Far from “slipping away,” our ability to lower atmospheric temperature has thus far been flung to the four (now regularly hurricane-level) winds, because a few of us are making too much money from fossil fuels
The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out this week, warning us that we were not even close to achieving the pledge of the Paris Agreement on climate change
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Doomsday being the moment when the ability to lower the atmospheric temperature has slipped from our control
"The moment when we puny humans are finally and irrevocably at the mercy of hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, drought, food shortages, rising sea levels and all the socio-political carnage that will accompany same"
"Nothing matters as much as our bone-headed, mass-suicidal march toward extreme-weather oblivion"
It’s not that we don’t have the solutions. We do,” McKay added. “Clean energy is better and cheaper than it’s ever been. That’s the tragedy of what is happening — we have the science and the solutions. The only thing that’s lacking is the awareness.”
Sirota and Warren echoed those sentiments and the list of obstacles: climate deniers, broken incentives, an underinformed and increasingly overwhelmed public, those who would politicize a nonpolitical topic and, above all, powerful lobbies.
Speaking from a basement room in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Warren said the political influence wielded by oil and gas companies is “so baked into this place that they don’t need to ask for a special thing. They just need a lot of inaction.” www.latimes.com/…
It’s not that we don’t have the solutions. We do
Current climate commitments put the world on course for warming of 2.7°C. It is crucial that decision-makers put in place policies to limit warming
Ukraine’s Conflict Has Rippled All the Way to the Arctic Circle
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5 days ago — The war in Ukraine has made getting more fossil fuels to Europe a top priority of the Biden Administration, in order to wean European Union...
"We could prevent it right now if we were willing to make a substantive shift to clean energy, which we are technologically able to do."