<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br>\u201cSomeday I must tell my son what I have done. My <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">comfortable,</span> safe life is in large part a product of the internal combustion engine. 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.</div><div><br>\u201cI 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. 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 i<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">n comfort and convenience,</span> am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.\u201d</div><div><br></div><div>Kate Marvel, Ph.D., physicist, climate scientist, currently at Project Drawdown<br><br><a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/">https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/</a><br><br></div><div><font color="#ff2600"><b>=============================</b></font></div><div><font color="#ff2600"><b><br></b></font></div><div>\u201cA team of heavyweights in climate science including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying \u2018<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced \u2026\u2019 and they end it by saying, \u2018we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.\u2019\u201d<br></span><br>https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/<br><br><br></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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