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An Inconvenient Solution
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was one of the high points not only of the environmental movement but also of the documentary tradition in America. He figured out how to use a new medium, PowerPoint, to take the unavoidably wonkish story of global warming and make it scary, credible and [...]
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World’s Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma
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Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth… at the same time
By 2050, the world will host nine billion people—and that’s if population growth slows in much of the developing world. Today, at least one billion people are chronically malnourished or starving. Simply to maintain that sad state of affairs would [...]
‘Safe’ climate means ‘no to coal’
Cover of An Inconvenient Truth
About three-quarters of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must be left unused if society is to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists warn.
More than 100 nations support the goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C.
But the scientists say that without major curbs on fossil fuel use, 2C will probably be reached by [...]
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