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This World Is Burning – LA Progressive

John Scales Avery: Although the worst threats from catastrophic climate change lie in the long-term future, we are starting to see the effects of climate change…

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The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales. In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most catastrophic effects of climate change we need to act immediately, Fossil fuels must be left in the ground. Forests must be saved from destruction by beef or palm oil production.
These vitally necessary actions are opposed by powerful economic interests, by powerful fossil fuel corporations desperate to m…

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