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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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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.
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Basically, if we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, temperatures stabilize.
The US actually passed climate legislation last year, and it looks like the renewables build-out is going to proceed quickly enough to start displacing fossil fuels over the next few years
Positive reports tend to look like modest incremental improvements, but we've been getting a lot of those.
Thanks, I really do appreciate it. I will say that the
if
in that first link is doing an Atlas' level of work, though, and it's the point where my optimism has dropped the lowest