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Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week

April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading

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They are tearing the Amazon rainforest down

It has been growing there for 55 million years. The human race was around 1 million 10,000 years BC. Since the industrial revolution we are now over 8 billion and have wrought irrevocable destruction to the planet. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-sharing-the-amazon-rainforest.html?origin=serp_auto The tragedy … Continue reading

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Higher elevations and Climate change

The higher you live, the more likely you are to experience impacts of climate change, as these impacts are increasing at a more rapid rate in recent years than human experience can adapt to. I only live 900ft above sea … Continue reading

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Anoxification of Oceans

A quote from  “The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future” by David Wallace-Wells: “It has become quite common to say that we are living through a mass extinction—a period in which human activity has multiplied the rate at which … Continue reading

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