“A fast transition away from fossil fuels in the next few decades could be enough to put off rapid sea-level rise for centuries. That’s a decision worth countless trillions of dollars and millions of lives. 'The range of outcomes,' Bassis says, 'is really going to depend on choices that people make.'”
Tagged: Global Warming Climate Change sea-level rise global problems world issues environmental outcome
“No one noticed When the sparrows left It was just another smoggy winter morning People drove their cars dropped their children off At air conditioned schools Where they learned Pollution is a bad thing It was just another smoggy winter morning And stuck on flyovers No one noticed That they spent more time on roads Than with family and friends So the city of traders Traded its sparrows, for SUVs And children’s lungs for Diwali firecrackers Pollution was good for business And as a million bonfires lit up in Punjab and Haryana Delhi bought air purifiers, masks, cough syrup and tweeted in anger But it all started On a smoggy winter morning When the last sparrow left No one noticed, As that ever useful smog Hid us from our conscience”
Tagged: Pollution air pollution Global Warming Climate Change environmental outcome Environmentalism humans' destruction poem Poetry
