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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 5:00am

Something to keep in mind…


Our current efforts for climate mitigation are proof of concept
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nothing more
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Sorry, but CO2 continues to climb, in fact is accelerating.
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Solar and wind contribution are in the very small percentages.
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We are very close to doing nothing, perhaps close to epsilon as epsilon approaches zero.
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We are facing corporations and governments that will not budge.
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They want to build their economy, wealth and military
and fossil fuels are a key part of that.
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anonymous climate scientist on the IPCC
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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 3:53am

Something to keep in mind…

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the international focus on fossil fuels
has overshadowed
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the most powerful and cost-efficient
carbon-capture technology
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the world has yet seen: forests
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intact forests
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are capable of storing
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the equivalent
of the carbon dioxide emissions
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of entire countries
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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 12/13/2018 - 5:21am

Something to keep in mind…
So we have not come here to beg the world leaders
to care for our future.
They have ignored us in the past
and they will ignore us again.
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We have come here
to let them know that change is coming
whether they like it or not

Greta Thunberg calls a School #ClimateStrike 2018
Friday, December 14, tomorrow
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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX14YDtemLc]

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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 12/06/2018 - 5:00am

Something to keep in mind…

The rapid degradation of the Canadian boreal forest
threatens
to have a global impact
exacerbating the effects of climate change
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In just 20 years, an area nearly the size of Ohio
has been cut with a huge portion
of this harvested wood
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converted into pulps that are used to manufacture
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newsprint,
paper,
and tissue
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NRDC

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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 11/15/2018 - 5:00am

Something to keep in mind…


For every square yard of forest,
27 square yards of leaves and needles blanket the crowns.
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In addition, each summer, trees use up to 8,500 cubic yards of water per square mile,
which they release into the air through transpiration.
This water vapor creates new clouds that travel farther inland to release their rain.
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This water pump works so well that the
downpours in some large areas of the world, such as the Amazon Basin,
are almost
as heavy thousands of miles inland as they are on the coast.
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the whole process breaks down if coastal forests are cleared.
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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 11/08/2018 - 5:00am

Something to keep in mind…

We are now in the midst of the 6th extinction,
with a very rapid destruction of other species
and of the kind of environment in which they can survive,
like wilderness for example.
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We are pushing to the edge of not only our own survival,
but that of much of life on earth.
So, is this the most gravest moment in my life?
Yes,
but also in all of human history.
Noam Chomsky

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