Terrified by ‘Hothouse earth?’ Don’t despair - do something.

The prospect of runaway climate change is terrifying. But it’s still avoidable.

A team of international researchers released what looks like a blueprint for catastrophe this week. On our current path, they warned, humanity might push the planet into an entirely new, hellish equilibrium, unseen since before the emergence of our species millions of years ago.

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