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We haven’t earned the right to quit. Monday Morning Salvage: October 8, 2018

Posted on October 8, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • The new IPCC Climate Change Report is out and it is grim. With very little time left to hold back the worst outcomes of global warming, we need a massive multi-national coordinated effort at a scale that we have never before even attempted. The clock is ticking and the time for wishful thinking and hopeful platitudes is over. We’ve got a decade to pull off something currently unimaginable.
  • I echo David Robert’s concerns that the current political climate, and not just in the US, is directly opposed to making lasting climate solutions.

We are slouching toward somewhere around 3 or 3.5C. That's probably not extinction-level, but it will cause enormous human suffering & irreversible changes that make the biosphere less welcoming to life. We could easily drive half of earth's other species to extinction.

  • And yes, this is a dark, dark report. There’s no hearty, feel-good dose of Earth Optimism today. Maybe it’s discouraging. Maybe you just want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world. Well too bad. You haven’t earned the right to give up. None of us have.

That’s it. There is nothing else.

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