Commentary: Facing climate crisis without being a nihilist
by Peter Kalmus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 2019
4 minutes
The climate crisis has moved into everyday life and it can feel overwhelming.
Hurricane Dorian, which left more than 70,000 people homeless, was an instance of this climate breakdown. A hotter ocean means stronger storms, a higher sea means worse flooding, a hotter atmosphere means more rain. Worsening wildfires in California and elsewhere, devastating flooding in our agricultural heartland, swaths of dead forest in the Rockies, the global collapse of coral reefs - these are just a few examples of the long and lengthening list of the catastrophic impacts of climate breakdown.
The evidence that human-caused global heating is dangerously disrupting Earth systems is unequivocal,
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