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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo Avoid Climate Catastrophe, We Need a Quick 80% CO2 Emissions Cut. We Can't Get a 3.5%/Year Cut.
So, we're in a race: How high can we push Global CO2 levels before the EFFECTS of Climate Change destroys Industrial Civilization.
We're at 392 ppm. Will we peak at 500 ppm? Can we last till 650 ppm? Who knows?
Here's the deal: how ever high we push the number, our children and our children's children will have to live with that for hundreds of years. Carbon is forever.
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To Avoid Climate Catastrophe, We Need a Quick 80% CO2 Emissions Cut. We Can't Get a 3.5%/Year Cut. (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
Dec 2012
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. How do you think we can do that?
I agree, we need to do it quickly.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)4. I have no idea EXCEPT a wartime footing kind of socialism....
Amory Lovins writ large efficiency....
Manhattan Project for alternate energy....
National (hell, International) Crisis kind of thing.
What we NEED to do vs. what we're WILLING to do is Night and Day.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. Exhibit #1 on "Why I Have No Offspring."
physioex
(6,890 posts)3. Awesome cartoon....
I think the music works well with the animation.