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‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?
(www.theguardian.com)
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Buckle up, it will get worse.
By how much is a human decision though. The bulk of coal, tar, oil, and gas are still in the the ground. There are forests yet standing. Cattle are the bulk of mammals.
We can choose to leave fossil fuels in the ground unburned. To manage forests to keep them around. To shift away from eating animals. Do those, and we can limit the damage.
It's a human decision as it's humans who can make this decision.
However it's a decision that only a very small minority of humans can do, most of us have no say in this.
Most us aren't the final decisionmaker but have a lot of ways to out our thumb on the scale to influence the outcome