Young people gather in New York for a student-led protest against a lack of action on climate issues and to raise awareness about climate change…
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Revelle Mast wanted to be an architect when she was a kid. She changed course in high school, deciding to pursue mechanical engineering to address the threat of climate change. But, last year, she made another life decision: to go into politics.
“I realized about a year ago that was not feasible on the time scale that climate change is happening,” Mast said. “Nine months ago, I quit my engineering job and went full time into political work.”
As global warming – the gradual increase in temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere –accelerates, people are grappling with the idea that disastrous conditions may appear as soon as 2040. The reality of this potentially existential crisis greatly influences the way some people, especially those who have dedicated their lives to stopping climate change, make life decisions – whether that’s going vegan, living in a certain part of the country or deciding […]
The IPCC finding that we could have disasterous conditions by 2040 due to global warming was calculated based on the earth having most of it’s Nitrogen in the atmosphere. But it has been recently discovered that over billions of years, the Earth has stored a vast quantity of Nitrogen in its bedrock. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6384/58.full