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Climate Protesters Were Coming, So the Gardner Museum Locked Down
(www.nytimes.com)
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.
Partially true but not completely true.
I think there’s a fair point to be argued that “carrying on as normal” is part of our existential crisis too, even if it doesn’t directly involve fossil fuels. We are woefully unaware of this.