Friday Five )) Why climate should be at the top of your list
Source: The Conversation. The cumulative forest area burned by wildfires has greatly increased between 1984 and 2015, with analyses estimating that the area burned by wildfire across the western United States over that period was twice what would have burned had climate change not occurred. USGCRP, NCA4, Vol. 2
By Darren Katz, Co-Founder
This Friday, we are refocusing our attention on the climate crisis. Even though we’ve been appropriately thinking about Covid, the election, racial justice, and economic deviation, we always need to keep our eyes on the existential threat of global warming and climate disasters.
1 )) There are already climate refugees in the US. They’re Americans.
2 )) Smoke from the US wildfires have already reached Europe.
3 )) We’ve had so many tropical storms, we’ve run out of names.
4 )) The climate crisis is already a national security crisis.
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