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It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.


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How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.



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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.



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We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.



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Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.





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