When and how will we begin implementing the one and only viable solution to climate change? Time is running short to seize the opportunity and choose our own future, rather than have it dictated to us by events. Will we as a species embrace climate change as a challenge that we must undertake, one that we must begin at once, one in which we must prevail? Or not?Last month, June 2019, was the hottest June ever recorded. Nine of the 10 warmest Junes in recorded history have occurred since 2010. As I write this article today, most of America is suffering an extreme heatwave. The frequency and intensity of extreme heat, excessive rainfall, hurricanes, floods and gigantic wildfires are increasing. Climate change, once a mere statistical figment of scientific prediction, is now happening as a matter of universally experienced fact.This, scientists tell us, is just the beginning. The future is far more disquieting. For many years, public discussion has been focused, somewhat arbitrarily,...
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