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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene.

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Dire Scientific Warnings from the Study of Fossilized Shells and Our Hope for the Future

Green Market Oracle

This led them to conclude that the cause of the extinction was warming and ocean acidification attributable to the release of GHGs from massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia. This resulted in anoxia or large scale oxygen depletion altering elemental cycles.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. Innovators : Companies such as JAX LNG are moving biogas/biomethane facilities to the coast, decreasing delivery costs.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Every government should now be focused on the investments and innovation required to reach net zero emissions as quickly as possible. Key to keeping 1.5C ‘alive' will be a marked reduction in the release of highly-potent methane emissions, which could rapidly slow temperature rise.