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

Green Business Bureau

At the end of the first century, there were approximately 170 million people on Earth, by 1800, the population was over 1 billion people with major cities developing, breakthrough medical advancements, and continued technological innovation. There is nearly twice as much carbon in permafrost than is currently in the atmosphere.

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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. We will need to deploy technological solutions on a vast scale while massively reducing resource and energy consumption.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

We would suggest that is arguably impossible, both economically and technologically. This must be optimally complemented by sharp reductions in the rise in concentrations of short-lived greenhouse gases, in particular methane, which will further slow warming and thereby limit the time and amount of the required intervention.

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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. Technologies like hydrogen and batteries don’t have a high enough energy density to volumetrically power vessels.

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

Business Green

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. This report also indicates that attribution science has moved on leaps and bounds - we know that solutions exist, that technologies are available and that capital is ready to be allocated.