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I donated to a local food shelf, wore a mask to a community meeting even though I was only one of a few, and l am reading a book to learn more about first aid. I can’t stop the climate careening towards disaster but that doesn’t mean l am powerless.
January 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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If you’d like the citation for that statement, it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5C report, which concluded:
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A thought that actually helped this when I was doomscrolling inside my mind on my bikeride this morning was:

"OK, you've been sent back from the future to fix the timeline starting now. What do you do?"
I keep dreaming of being in the other timeline where we’d be saying “can you even imagine how bad it would be if things had gone the other way?”
January 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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This list is scary and depressing—but the 'black swan' event I wrote about breaks the mold.

I’m not being a Pollyanna here. I genuinely believe my prediction has at least as good a chance of being right as any of them, and possibly even more.

What do you think?
The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025
15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators provide some explosive potential scenarios for the new year.
www.politico.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM