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We Will Build Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis | The Latecomer

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Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Our civilization has built untold wealth upon 200 years of frantic burning of coal, oil, and gas. Its heat has lifted our species from cold, hunger, ignorance, premature death, and poverty. In a single century routine famine went from a near universal to practically unknown. And yet, burning fossilized carbon carries a hidden cumulative cost, and the bill is coming due. Burning coal and oil turns fossil carbon into CO2 gas which accumulates in the atmosphere far faster than natural processes, such as weathering and plants, can take it back out. Atmospheric CO2, now 50% higher than pre-industrial levels, drives the greenhouse effect and gradually increases Earth’s temperature, sea level, and climatic extremes. But these gradual increases result in enormous effects. Every year, temperatures hit all-time highs and lows, the coast alternately bakes and floods, and unseasonal weather harms crops and ecosystems. 1 1 Our options seem bleak

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