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NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus urges Biden to ‘declare a climate emergency’ & warns climate ‘will eventually end civilization as we know it, cause billions of human deaths’

https://www.newsweek.com/sadly-its-not-just-another-summer-we-must-end-fossil-fuel-industry-opinion-1832188

Kalmus: Why do I claim that we’re “in the process of losing basically everything?” Isn’t that an exaggeration?

I don’t think it’s likely that humanity will go extinct, which is why I’ve used the modifier “basically.” But I do think we are on a sociopolitical pathway—fossil fuel expansion—that will eventually end civilization as we know it, cause billions of human deaths, and further worsen widespread ecological collapse and mass extinction—damage that will take millions of years for Earth to recover from. We must get off this path, but instead, we continue to procrastinate.

 

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