Here are few things I found interesting.
Media should make this information more available and talk about it over and over, so the people would start to think about our earth planet's problems, and not live in their own little world, not knowing what's going on around them.
"we are all metaphorically passengers on that flight"
It’s not that we’re broke. It’s that the money is in the wrong places, and we’re not willing to go get it.
the fossil fuel companies are planning to dig up five times more carbon than that. So they’ve essentially declared war on life on Earth, and they’re also saying, "We don’t believe these politicians are serious when they set that two-degree target." So, that’s where the fossil fuel divestment movement comes in, which is, it’s clear that, left to their own devices, you know, they will bring us towards this catastrophic warming.
it took a while for the world to talk back. And now it’s roaring. And that is climate change.
"solar radiation management." Solar radiation management, managing the sun.
spray sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere, then they would reflect some of the sun’s rays back to space and dim the sun and cool the Earth
the solution to that pollution is pollution in the stratosphere
rather than try to change the laws of nature, try to change what we actually can, which is the laws of economics
What first needs to happen?
need to have bold national policies, like you need to have feed-in tariffs. You need to have clear goals—how much of your grid is going to switch to renewable energy, by what time.
no drilling in the Arctic, no new tar sands, and wind down the tar sands
climate change was playing out in the natural world is also often as a fertility crisis, that we were making the world less fertile, whether we’re making the soil less fertile, whether we’re deliberately making seeds less fertile
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