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clepinski on July 30th, 2020 at 17:09 UTC »
As someone living within the arctic I can tell you that even in the last decade the changes we've seen in climate and weather patterns have been very noticeable and extreme.
EcoMonkey on July 30th, 2020 at 17:06 UTC »
Yes, this is bad. Don't get paralyzed. Get motivated. We simply cannot afford to give in to defeatism.
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I'm not asking anyone to do anything I don't do. As a volunteer, I call my US Congress rep once a month, and sometimes more. I organize, I tabled back when coronavirus wasn't upon us, I've met directly with my reps, I've given presentations, have had letters to the editor published in newspapers, and so on. There's all kinds of training available. The tools are all there, and we just have to pick them up and use them to fix the climate crisis.
For my fellow citizens of the USA:
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We can achieve serious reductions (~37% over 11 years, 90% by 2050) by enacting robust carbon pricing legislation like the Energy Innovation Act that is explicitly intended to be bipartisan. Republicans are starting to shift on climate. We can and should get everyone on board, regardless of which side of the aisle they're sitting on.
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Bluest_waters on July 30th, 2020 at 14:02 UTC »
Nature is the premier scientific journal. We now have top researchers telling us the climate models are wrong, and that the climate crisis may be way worse than we imagined.
Not something to ignore I feel.