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2023 will be a turning point for the climate, for our species and for our planet. In 2022, it became brutally clear where we are headed. Although we’d been warned by climate scientists for decades, the Earth itself showed everyone unequivocally that climate abuse has consequences, and we ignore those consequences at our peril.
Superficially, not much seemed to change. The status quo appeared to hold everywhere. Climate abusing governments and corporations and tycoons continued as before. This was true in the United States, in China, in Russia, in U.K., in India, in Australia, in continental Europe, in Japan. Pretty much everywhere.
The standard excuses (and some slight variations) were rolled out by media, PR flacks, politicians and business “leaders.” And objectors were mostly visible in the actions of what appeared to be fringe groups like Just Stop Oil. We would continue to wait for our leaders to actually do something meaningful. Or believe their lies when they say they are doing something to preserve the Earth’s climate.
All the while, physics and chemistry and biology continue to operate as normal, climate collapse accelerates and clueless authorities continue their unprecedented planet-wide murder/suicide. It doesn’t look good.
