September, 2019: A Tipping Point Moment for the Earth?

Now, thanks to the unceasing efforts of people like Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, the Sunrise Movement, and many others, there is a sense that attitudes toward global warming and climate change may be shifting.

The Los Angeles Times this week published a story entitled “The Climate Apocalypse Is Here.  You Have One Last Chance To Stop It.”  We can’t reprint the graphic that accompanies that story, but we can show you the tweet Bill McKibben published to promote the story.  It’s a pretty bold graphic.

McKibben, who founded 350.org, has been busy bringing his patented brand of distressing climate news wrapped in easy to swallow format to mainstream news outlets like The New Yorker and most recently Time Magazine.  His latest essay for Time is entitled “Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different.”  It offers a sort of sci-fi analysis of how global warming was tamed and the changes that process brought to the environment and human society.

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