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Nevertheless, space must remain for ‘grassroots’ campaigns which advance the post-scarcity alternative while attacking a broken status quo. Campaigns around divestment from fossil fuels offer one example of how that will work. Rather than calling for climate justice through appeals to turn down the volume on modernity here, criticism of fossil fuel

Ma quale temperatura sceglieremmo: la media dell’era preindustriale? 0,5°C in più? 1°C in più? E chi dovrebbe deciderlo? Queste sono domande fondamentali per un organismo di governance globale, che dovrebbe essere istituito con urgenza e dotati di effettivi poteri.

before the end of the century Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), a Swedish chemist and an early Nobelian, published the first calculations of increased global surface temperature arising from the eventual doubling of preindustrial atmospheric CO2.[43] His paper also noted that global warming will be felt least in the tropics and most felt in the polar r

In Britain there’s a law that says that in an emergency, you can break some rules—you don’t get charged with trespassing, for example, if you break into a burning building to save people. Ben and his legal team argued that this was an emergency: they were trying to prevent the planet from being set on fire. Twelve ordinary British jurors considered