We are about to enter the Last Decade

On Climate, Speed is Everything - The Nearly Now

We’re out of time to waste and money is to blame

The Real Politics of the Planetary Crisis - The Nearly Now

Climate gradualism — “we all want to act on climate, but we also have to be slow, incremental and realistic” — is the new climate denialism.

We have a timeline for keeping temperatures below 2°C

Scientists made a detailed "roadmap" for meeting the Paris climate goals. It's staggering.

At this point, research emphasizing that well-established truth is less useful than research on how to overcome the social and political barriers to rapid action. Collectively, we know we need to act; we just don’t know how to make ourselves do it.

1. Global CO2 emissions from energy and industry have to fall in half each decade.
2. Net emissions from land use — i.e., from agriculture and deforestation — have to fall steadily to zero by 2050.
3. Technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere have to start scaling up massively.