Can COP help save the planet?
I tried answering that question last year. Although I decided the answer was no, it can’t save the planet — nor can any single climate conference, for that matter — climate summits are important, because they push the needle forward …
Not as long as conservatives and their corporate overlords are given such wide-spread access.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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