A fast transition away from fossil fuels in the next few decades could be enough to put off rapid sea-level rise for centuries. That’s a decision worth countless trillions of dollars and millions of lives. 'The range of outcomes,' Bassis says, 'is really going to depend on choices that people make.'
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Eric Holthaus
Eric Holthaus (born 1981) is a meteorologist who works for Slate, and former columnist for the Wall Street Journal who has frequently written about the impacts of global climate change. Holthaus grew up in Kansas. His writing during Hurricane Sandy resulted in a substantial following. During his career, he has advised numerous groups and individuals on coping with changing weather, including Indian military officials and Ethiopian subsistence farmers. He has traveled to Ethiopia in many occasions, where he does work for a climate project. On September 27, 2013, feeling that his extensive air travel was contributing to the problem, Holthaus vowed never to fly agai
A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating…
Minute-by-minute, huge skyscraper-sized shards of ice cliffs would crumble into the sea, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and as deep underwater as the height of the Empire State Building. The result: a global catastrophe the likes of which we’ve never seen.
I lose sleep over climate change almost every single night. I can’t remember how long this has been happening, but it’s been quite a while, and it’s only getting worse. I confess: I need help.
I'm a meteorologist by training and a journalist by profession. For the past 12 years, I've focused every working day on understanding, explaining, and trying to alleviate the effects of climate change. Yet global carbon emissions are more than 20 percent higher now than when I started work as a…
I don’t know if it’s the right decision, but I know that I need to preserve my own well-being to continue to fight for the planet.
With climate, we are finally starting to realize that this is a story about people, not about science, graphs or charts. It’s really a story about ourselves and how we interact with the rest of the world.
Socially-constructed masculinity is ruining the planet.
Our job as people who understand the fundamental connectedness of the environment and thriving life of all kinds is to shift our culture (relatively quickly) to make the most meaningful of these changes feel inevitable. That shift starts with each of us.
If you need to recharge, recharge. If you need to fight, fight. We need you. We are all in this together.
Don't let anyone tell you climate change is hopeless. Together, we're a powerful tool for change. Faster than elections + policy + industry
We are each part of the answer, in small and big ways. This is the biggest challenge of our time, maybe of all time. We need everyone.
The more quickly we learn and accept the humanity in each other, the more quickly we can work together -- on behalf of all living things.
I’m not sure how much more clearly we can say this: Everything we’re doing, if it doesn’t involve eliminating fossil fuel use immediately, is actively making the climate problem worse. There is no time left for incremental action. It is literally do or die time.
Our task is to reduce emissions as quickly and justly as possible, no matter the political context. We don’t have time to wait for 'a better time.'
We won't survive this century unless we start caring more about each other. Compassion. Empathy. Love. The internet has connected us, now it's up to our hearts to do the rest.
At some point, we have to say it: Climate change is the biggest act of injustice in the history of humanity. It is our moral duty to demand justice, whatever the cost. That time for me is now.
For the rest of our lives, every moment matters. Do what you can, whatever that is. Everyone has part of the answer. We need each other, and we are in this together. We can imagine and demand and build a better world. We must insist that time start now.