Climate Crisis
by simon · updated 2mo ago
Climate Crisis
by simon · updated 2mo ago
"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.
In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Rev
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One of the most affecting myths of clock time is that we all experience time at the same steady pace. We don’t. “The future is already here,” the science-fiction author William Gibson famously said in 2003, “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” And framing the climate crisis as a ticking clock with only a certain amount of time “to avoid disaste
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