<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"But the scale of climate change engulfs even the most fortunate. ....</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> The world we once knew is never coming back.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"I have no hope that these changes can be reversed.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> We are inevitably <a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">sending our children</span></a> to live on an unfamiliar planet.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"We need courage, not hope</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">."</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class="">Kate Marvel, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">physicist, associate research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><<<a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-need-courage-not-hope-to-face-climate-change/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-need-courage-not-hope-to-face-climate-change/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">**********************************</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Aldo Leopold</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">**********************************</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“The fact is that we, humans, have changed the composition of the atmosphere with respect to heat-trapping gases enough to start the progression of global climate, not into a new steady state, but into </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">an open-ended warming that is pulling the environment out from under this civilization.”</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">George Woodwell</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><<<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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