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“The world is on track to dump 2.5 trillion tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere by mid-century. Does that sound like an innocuous number? It’s not. It’s terrifying. It’s nearly 3 times what our planet can absorb without disastrous impacts. That level of pollution, scientists agree, will push average global temperatures up by almost 11 degrees Fahrenheit—the tipping point beyond which the most calamitous impacts of climate change start to become unavoidable for most people on Earth. The track we’re on, the track of little to no concerted global action on climate, is literally a dead end.
That’s why 400,000 people, myself included, took to the streets of New York City at the People’s Climate March yesterday to demand that world leaders take bold action on climate change—to limit carbon pollution, to shift to clean energy, and to create a more secure future for the planet…”
