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Climate repair: Three things we must do now to stabilise the planet

The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now seen as a planet-wide existential crisis; we need to work together urgently

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David King, and Jane Lichtenstein | The Conversation
Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back to a place of relative safety for humanity?
The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now seen as a planet-wide existential crisis; we need to work together urgently, just to secure a short-term future for human civilisation. Global weather patterns are violently disrupted: Greece burns; the south of England floods; Texas has

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