Catastrophic Climate Change and Overcoming the Limits of Local Action

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Climate Change: A Really Big Threat

It has been said by many great thinkers over the centuries that the only sure way to get two long term enemies to stop fighting is to get them to unite to face a bigger threat.

Perhaps that needs to be changed to say ‘face a greater tangible threat’.

You see, the whole world is facing that threat right now. Climate change is, to quote Vice President Biden (out of context) a big fucking deal. We have entered the era of super storms. After that comes the age of polar melt, and then the death of the oceans, and then the planet.

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