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“Making things (cement, steel, plastic) 31% Plugging in (electricity) 27% Growing things (plants, animals) 19% Getting around (planes, trucks, cargo ships) 16% Keeping warm and cool (heating, cooling, refrigeration) 7%”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“The climate is like a bathtub that’s slowly filling up with water. Even if we slow the flow of water to a trickle, the tub will eventually fill up and water will come spilling out onto the floor. That’s the disaster we have to prevent. Setting a goal to only reduce our emissions—but not eliminate them—won’t do it.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and then imagine spreading the pain out over a much longer period of time.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“In other words, by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most from it.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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