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Get ready for climate change! Before it’s too late
(thebulletin.org)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Ready set go is weak. Getting ready for climate change means building fireproof homes with passivehouse levels of energy efficiency, and no fossil fuels used in their operation, and eventually their construction. Operating energy is renewables only, ideally solar and wind, with nuclear as a transition energy source only.
Being prepared to run away from a flammable home built in a tinderbox, only to rebuild and repeat the cycle is madness.