<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 style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpt : </b><font color="#555555" class="">Someday I must tell my son what I have done. My comfortable, safe life is in large part a product of the </font><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page5.php" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class="">internal combustion engine</span></a><font color="#555555" class="">. Fossil fuels power the trains that take us to the beach, the factories that make his plastic bucket and spade, the lights I switch off when I kiss him good night. We can make small adjustments: recycling, buying reusable bottles for our water and ice coffee, foregoing the occasional plastic bag. But these small things, even multiplied by a large population, are still small in the end.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I cannot deny my son or myself the ease of modern life, and I have no wish to isolate him from friends and family by insisting on radical changes. A carbon-free life seems a solitary one: no travel to see grandparents, awkward refusals of invitations, precious time with friends replaced by gardening, canning, mending, building, working. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I search for political solutions, an advocacy muted by the cowardice of my personal choices. In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Greenhouse gases are indisputably warming the whole planet. We are moving toward a future where the natural variations of El Niño are swamped by rising ocean temperatures. There will be no weather that we have not somehow touched. And our legacy travels deeper than we think: We have left to our children a time bomb of warming. Even if we somehow managed to halt the increase in greenhouse gases, freezing them at today’s levels, <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/11/24/even-if-emissions-stop-carbon-dioxide-could-warm-earth-centuries" class="">the planet’s temperature would continue to rise</a> as the heat trickles into the deep, slowly creating a new equilibrium. The ocean will eventually know what we have done to the atmosphere. The process is slow, but inexorable. We have committed ourselves to this warming, a legacy to future generations.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To be a climate scientist is to be an active participant in a slow-motion horror story.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<</span><a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/" class="">https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/</a>>></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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It’s urgent.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><<</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/" class="">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/</a></span><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class="">>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class="">---------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">Spending the planet for energy intensive lifestyles</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><<</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM</a><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class="">>></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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