The Four Musts to Save the World From Global Warming | Opinion (only 6.99 years left)

Newsweak via MSN ^ | 1/24/24 | Jean Su

[Libloather]

The new year's barely underway, and already it's a make-or-break moment for our precarious climate - and the U.S. role in saving it.

Last year was by far the hottest in recorded human history. Yet the United States produced more climate-heating gas and oil during that time than any country in the world—in fact, more oil than any nation in history.

When it comes to why the Biden administration needs to lead the charge to phase out fossil fuels, four reasons stand out.

Going to Extremes

Last year's record-shattering heat and its climate harms left a wake of death, destruction and heartbreak from Lahaina to Libya, Arizona to the Antarctic. Every month since June has blown out temperature records by such huge margins that one scientist called the numbers "gobsmackingly bananas."

Now experts are saying 2024 may be even worse. That's in part because sustained fossil-fueled climate change is being supercharged by the planet-warming El Niño weather pattern.

The "era of global boiling" has arrived. Without dramatic action, annual heat-related deaths are expected to rise 370 percent by 2050, with 525 million more people facing food insecurity. In the coming decades, 1 million animal and plant species could be lost to extinction.

Out-Polluting Progress

The United States plays the pivotal role in the fight against the climate emergency, for better or worse.

In December, as past heat records were melting into oblivion, the U.S. set a record for the most oil produced by any country ever and maintained its role as the world's largestgas producer. It also hit a record for exports of liquified natural gas and became the world's largest LNG exporter.

The Biden administration boasts about enacting bold climate law through the Inflation Reduction Act. But oil and gas projects approved by the administration threaten to entirely erase...

[lizma2]

“Club of Rome”

Early version of the Davos crowd.

[lizma2]

I’m assuming this a joke but is it???

[Bonemaker]

Eh..no. Democrats are that stupid.

[lizma2]

Not the least bit surprised.

In 84, I backpacked for 6 weeks through Europe visiting family that either lived through Nazism or were living under Communism.

ALL of them told me “We fell for their lies”

Spent time with a distant cousin in Croatia. He was the vice president of bank and his wife was a teacher.

My apartment as a med student was much bigger than his.

Are we entering a “We fell for their lies” stage??