Climate change: "We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying - Posel Technological Solutions
Climate change: "We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified", writes Earth scientist
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Untold devastation awaits us if radical action is not taken. Frans Delian/Shutterstock.com
The chalk is made up of ancient pulverised shells of tiny organisms called coccolithophore. John Hemmings/Shutterstock.com
Extinction Rebellion occupy Waterloo Bridge in London, April 2019. Victoria Jones/PA Wire/PA Images
The techno-planet. Joshua Davenport/Shutterstock.com
The growth of the economy is based on the growth of consumption. Roman Mikhailiuk/Shutterstock.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, champion of the US Green New Deal. Rachael Warriner/Shutterstock.com
Renewable energy production has not led to a reduction in fossil fuel use. Thongsuk Atiwannakul/Shutterstock.com
The relationship between the size of the global economy and carbon emissions is so robust that US physicist Tim Garrett has proposed a very simple formula that links the two with startling accuracy. Using this method, an atmospheric scientist can predict the size of the global economy for the past 60 years with tremendous precision.
Fewer people would not necessarily mean a smaller technosphere. Gunnerchu/Shutterstock.com
We must start to see ourselves as a small part of a planetary natural system. Ethan Daniels/Shutterstock.com