An absolutely fantastic bit of writing. My favourite sentence:
The effort to slow climate change is in many ways an attempt to make the charts agree again, make them speak to each other in once-familiar languages.
I don't want this to happen to us, but by golly it is. My two children are going to be living further North I guess. We gotta get away from the heat a bit.
We gotta get away from the heat a bit.
That's not really the concern here, unless you're living in India, the middle East, or Africa, or whatever. There's a lot worse consequences coming for us than a bit of heat around equator regions.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/
Nothing is changing any time soon
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.