Just Another Earth Day Here On Earth

the countries’ bare-bones plans are still far from enough to keep global warming to tolerable levels. No country has shared a detailed, credible strategy to achieve what scientists think is necessary: ending the era of fossil-fuel emissions and converting entirely to clean energy no later than the middle of this century.

World leaders are gathering today in New York to sign a weak climate agreement they made in December in Paris. Meanwhile, Greenland is melting, coral reefs are losing their color and life force along with it, global temperatures are spiking anomalously, air pollution in China is staggering, and the latest projections have sea levels rising up to six feet by the end of the century Antarctica (that’s the one in the South Pole). Sorry, Earth! Even if Elon Musk gave away Teslas for free, we’d still be in a pretty pickle. But don’t worry, the whole experiment was all going to come to an end one way or another. Did you know that our sun is going to explode in five billion years and destroy us? But that’s only if our galaxy survives colliding with another galaxy in four billion years (which it could totally do — there is a lot of space in space). What I think I’m saying is, relax — it matters, but it also doesn’t matter. I think I just invented quantum computing! Happy Earth Day.

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