The IPCC's latest climate report is dire. But it also included some prospects for hope | Rebecca Solnit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil-fuel subsidies into renewable energy.
47% : Ending the age of fossil fuel with its carbon dioxide and methane emissions is the big piece, but there are many pieces, addressing agriculture and diet, construction and transportation, and environmental protection.
43% : Even the usually staid International Energy Agency said in May that we must aim for net-zero emissions and doing so "means huge declines in the use of coal, oil and gas.
38% : The UN secretary general, António Guterres, declared, "This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.
35% : And if we get to the relative heaven of a post-carbon world, we will see what kind of hell the age of fossil fuels always was, from the foul toxicity of oil, gas and coal and the millions they kill annually to the corruption of our politics.

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