The gap between what it would take to mitigate climate change—years of net negative carbon emissions, in a world where even *further lowering the rate of increase* in emissions may be politically impossible—and popular media coverage of the issue is staggering. Oh public editor!https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1212823074216857600 …
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The only way to avert severe climate change is to move the energy basis of the industrial economy off of fossil fuels within a small number of years. This point needs to be hammered home in the public conversation. There's no "yummy recipe" people can follow at home to fix this.
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Moreover, calling for ineffective lifestyle changes among urban consumers in ways that will hurt rural producers, in a country where those rural places are structurally overrepresented in government, will guarantee that climate becomes a third rail issue and we all roast together
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