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"The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now seen as a planet-wide
existential crisis; we need to work together urgently, just to secure a
short-term future for human civilisation. Global weather patterns are violently
disrupted: Greece burns; the south of England floods; Texas has had its coldest
weather ever, while California and Australia suffer apocalyptic wild fires. All
of these violent, record-breaking events are a direct result of rapid heating
in the Arctic - occurring faster than in the rest of the world. A warm Arctic
triggers new ocean and air currents that change the weather for everyone.
The only way to reverse some of these catastrophic patterns, and to regain a
kind of stability in climate and weather systems, is “climate repair” – a
strategy we call “reduce, remove, repair” – which demands that we make very
rapid progress to net zero global emissions; that there is massive, active
removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere; and, in the first instance,
that we refreeze the Earth’s poles and glaciers to correct the wild weather
patterns, slow down ice-melt, stabilise sea level, and break the feedback loops
that relentlessly accelerate global warming. There are no either/or options."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
