As out-of-control wildfires burned hundreds of homes in southern British Columbia this August, Cliff Chapman, director of operations for the province’s wildfire service, issued a sobering statement. “I cannot stress enough that the conditions we are facing right now are conditions that we have never seen before,” he told reporters.
Mr. Chapman, who has been fighting wildfires for over 20 years, could have made the same statement from Washington State, Croatia or many other places where similarly explosive wildfires have scorched neighborhoods and forced mass evacuations. These fast-moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past; they are the hazard lights of a heating climate, and they are flashing furiously. Rural and urban, East and West, we are entering a new era of civilizational risk and retreat.
I can't see it because it is behind a paywall
That's weird: for me it says it's an unlocked article. Can you check the URL again? Also, try the Archive link above. https://www.nytimes.com/...
It keeps saying this basically
Ohhh... So you can access it, but you need to give them an email. That sucks. I did so the site apparently recognizes me. Still, I wish you didn't have to. The summary is
The future is behind a paywall too!
It was inevitable to anyone that understands human nature.
We will rape and pillage this Earth. It's what humans do.
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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@slrpnk.net
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
go to feed...
Oof. This is bitter to read.
On a positive note, I am grateful that articles like this seem to be well past the point of 'we need common-sense bipartisan market reforms' and on to 'the oligarchs are going to kill us all if we don't stop them'. That's a kind of progress.
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