Moody Monday: the deadline is fast approaching

How pessimistic are you about the danger of climate change and the urgency with which humans must change their behavior?

You're not being pessimistic enough. The window of opportunity and the literal deadline for humanity is much shorter than you thought. It may be only 100 years away. Would you feel better if it's as much as 200 years away? Hear the prediction directly from Sabine Hossenfelder (with a PhD in physics) with the usual brutally dry wit:

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If you don't believe that lone voice, then consider what the other academics of Scientist Rebellion (part of the larger Extinction Rebellion movement) are also saying.

I said recently that we needed to return every carbon atom back to the ground where we took it. I didn't get into the facts of city heat islands or our mobile heaters that we call vehicles of transportation. All of that unleashed heat needs to be returned too, if it originally came from underground carbon... which came from energy that arrived geological ages ago. You know already that climate change is my #1 priority. I will post eventually about some changes I made at home recently. Earlier this year, I turned off the gas valve behind my kitchen stove. I "replaced" it with a single electric induction plate that current sits on top of the old stove. I'm also without a car of any kind, and I turned down my house thermostat even lower this winter. Details to come.

But we collectively have to change our behaviors immediately. Not next year. Now. There's no time to delay further.