Thursday 16 November 2017

How to fight climate change (and save the world)

a post for the Oxford University Press blog

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The ice caps are melting. Within a few years the North Pole will likely be ice-free for the first time in 10,000 years, causing what some call the “Arctic death spiral.” In the following excerpt from A Farewell to Ice, Peter Wadhams explains what we can do today to fight climate change.

What can we do, both individually and collectively, to try to save the world?

There is a massive list, of course, but I will pick out a few actions that might make a real difference.

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