Description: Fossil fuels enable massive ecological destruction & destabilize the very climate. Mainstream "solutions" are inadequate. Click to read a way forward.
Our future: wasteland or life?
Climate change is wreaking devastation now , and will get much worse. The idea of a “carbon budget” for the coming decades is delusional; we’re already deep in carbon debt. Climate change is already increasing the frequency and/or severity of fires , floods , droughts , and hurricanes . Sea levels have risen 8" with more to come. Ocean acidity has increased 30% , and coral reefs worldwide are suffering unprecedented bleaching . From 2008 to 2017, 21.3 million people each year were displaced by climate and w
The devastation we’re experiencing today results from only 1°C of global warming since the 1800s. Scientists argued decades ago that limiting the increase to 1°C was the safest option, but that was considered infeasible. The Paris Agreement aims for “well below” an arbitrarily chosen 2°C, and professes it still feasible to keep warming below 1.5°C.