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I Think We Have A Very Brief Window Of Opportunity To Deal With Climate Change. No Longer Than A Decade At Most.

If Humanity Wishes To Preserve A Planet Similar To That On Which Civilisation Developed And To Which Life On Earth Is Adapted, Paleoclimate Evidence And Ongoing Climate Change Suggest That Co₂ Will Need To Be Reduced From Its Current 385 Ppm [parts Per Million] To At Most 350 Ppm... If The Present Overshoot Of This Target Co₂ Is Not Brief, There Is A Possibility Of Seeding Irreversible Catastrophic Effects.

I Was Lucky To Grow Up At A Time When It Was Not Difficult For The Child Of A Tenant Farmer To Make His Way To The State University.

As Species Are Exterminated By Shifting Climate Zones, Ecosystems Can Collapse, Destroying More Species.

Because Cap And Trade Is Enforced Through The Selling And Trading Of Permits, It Actually Perpetuates The Pollution It Is Supposed To Eliminate.