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The world's first Smog Tower turns pollution into diamonds

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Six years after the Paris Climate Agreement is signed, the situation is grim. But the creator of the Smog Free Tower believes we can envision a better world.

More than six years have passed since the initial signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, and the threat posed to human life as we know it by the rapidly shifting environment has only increased. In the words of an April IPCC report, the time is “now or never.” Unlike any other in history, the fight to preserve the Earth’s biosphere and atmosphere must continue to move forward on many fronts; not only in energy industries, but in agriculture, transportation, fashion, and more. But perhaps the most direct and visceral way we can tell how well (or badly) the struggle is going comes from every…

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