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Changing the DNA of Living Things to Fight Climate Change
(www.nytimes.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
It displaces the use of nitrate fertilizers, which are made using huge amounts of methane. It's one less use of fossil fuels.
That's a big deal.
@silence7 @mardanfarrox if Koch Industries hates it then you know it must be good.