reaches middle age the human race’s carbon dioxide production will be double the earth’s natural carbon cycle – yet we are already seeing the hazardous effects through higher temperatures and more extreme weather. If we act now we can prevent things from getting worse but we are dangerously approaching the point of no return where we will be forced to recognise a new normal of extreme weather and unbearable temperatures. Why would we ever let that happen when there are so many clean energy sources being made available to us?
That’s a question we should probably be taken more seriously.
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Added by Michael Grove at 21:59 on December 29, 2013
s" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
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st project of life that envelops the Earth. But our rush to universal
empathic connectivity is running up against a rapidly accelerating entropic juggernaut in the
form of climate change.
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ed States from the Paris Agreement and officially pulled the nation out on November 4, 2020—the earliest possible date under the agreement and a day after the presidential election. Thankfully, even a formal withdrawal can be reversed since a future president can rejoin.
How Many Countries Are in the Paris Agreement?
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