Carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every two years for the next decade for the world to keep....google.com

Equivalent falls in emissions over a decade required to keep to safe limits of global heating, experts say

Lockdowns around the world led to an unprecedented fall in emissions of about 7% in 2020, or about 2.6bn tonnes of CO 2, but reductions of between 1bn and 2bn tonnes are needed every year of the next decade to have a good chance of holding temperature rises to within 1.5C or 2C of pre-industrial levels, as required by the Paris agreement. google.com

. Why We Will Meet the Challenge of the Climate Crisisclimate.columbia.edu/

How to fight climate despair

We’re not powerless, even if it feels that way.vox.com

'Rate'to actually FALL(Since 2019 Global Pop. GROWTH rate  fallen-below   1%

Hong Kong suffers biggest ever population drop as exodus acceleratescnn

Population decline to take Emerging Europe back to the early 20th century

Global Population Is About to Hit 8 Billion—

and Some Argue It Is Near Its Peak

As we cross eight billion people, it is worth considering that the world might never make it to 10 billion, or even nine billion, and that the world’s major demographic problems won’t stem from the growing masses but from shrinking countries, aging populations and dwindling workforces.  archive.ph/

Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

Scientists develop first-of-its-kind air conditioner that uses solid refrigerants

Synthetic genetic circuits could help plants adapt to climate changephys.org

Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systems phys.org

A new method boosts wind farms' energy output, without new equipmentphys.org

One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and beescnn.com

"Climate change is clearly visible": The NOAA’S new 'normals' cnn.com/

We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate changewww.npr.org/…

burning natural gas is not so great for our health or the health of our planet. Inside our homes, our  gas stoves,  water heaters  and furnaces give off dangerous levels of particulates and other air pollutants. Across our country, those fossil-fuel-powered systems and appliances emit nearly 15 percent of all greenhouse gases.

To achieve our climate goals, we need to make all new and existing buildings  zero-carbon by 2050. As cities grapple with how to reach those targets, some are adopting all-electric building codes, especially in new construction.

In the fight against climate change, some Chicagoans are going all-electric at home: ‘Hopefully, this will be the future’

"Fossil fuels, including natural gas, have been banished from the couple’s Logan Square home, where all the appliances, as well as the water heater and the heating and cooling system, run on electricity, a form of energy that can be produced without planet-warming greenhouse emissions." chicagotribune

Target of 300,000 new homes a year not sustainable, finds researchers, with negative biodiversity and climate impacts

scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands August 15npr.org

The 6th mass extinction hasn’t begun yet,but Earth

is barreling toward itlivescience.com

Whether you’re a climate ‘doomer’ or ‘appeaser’, it’s best to prepare for the worst Bill McGuire Our world is on course for a climate cataclysm. Or is it? Not long ago, the global heating battle lines were clear guardian.com

Climatologist Michael Mann has something to say about that in his new book,  The Fight for the Planet—The New Climate War,  which was  published late last year. From Page 183:

But if the inactivists tend to  understate  the threat from climate change, there is a segment of the climate activist community that not only  overstates  it, but displays a distinct appetite for all-out doomism—portraying climate change not just as a threat that requires urgent response,m but as an essentially lost cause, a hopeless fight. From the standpoint of climate action, that’s problematic on several levels. First, it provides a useful wedge for inactivists to employ as they attempt to divide climate advocates by raising the very emotional question of whether it is too late to act.

Doomism is a form of “crypto-denialism,” or, if you like, ”climate nihilism.” The boundary between what constitutes denialism and what constitutes nihilism is fuzzy. As clean-tech author Ketan Joshi put it, “Doomism is the new denialism. Doomism is the new fossil fuel profit protectionism. Helplessness is the new message.” So it has been stocked by inactivists, primarily because it breeds disengagement.

There is a place between being a doomer and being a pollyanna, and we should strive to be neither. It pains me to see people doom-scrolling and urging other people to join them in despair. To accept that no matter what we do we’re screwed. That civilization is doomed. That  Homo sapiens  is doomed. That the planet itself is doomed. Pains me because none of this is inevitable. Scientists aren’t saying it is. What they  are  saying is that  if  we don’t take immediate, profound, transformative action,  then  we’re doomed. Quite a different perspective.

I believe the youth climate movement and their allies are on the verge of adding a new intensity to their actions in order to spur serious, immediate climate action. The optimistic part of me thinks they will succeed at this. Of course, anyone can speculate, and nobody can with certainty predict the outcome of this struggle.

But while there is no doubt that our climate situation offers plenty of reasons for being depressed, the last thing anyone should be doing right now—no matter depressed they may be—is spreading a gospel of cynicism and despair by saying or implying that climate activism is a waste of time because we’re unavoidably going down the shitter. True enough, getting our leaders—political and otherwise—to launch serious climate action could turn out to be undoable. We just don’t know. It’s also possible that no matter what we do we’re already past the point of no return. We just don’t know.

What we do know is that if we surrender to despair and don’t act and don’t work to get  others  to act, doom is all but guaranteed.

Earth Matters with Meteor Blades dailykos.com/

A fifth effort to pass a global agreement to protect the world's oceans and marine life has failed.

Talks to pass the UN High Seas Treaty had been ongoing for two weeks in New York, but governments could not agree on the terms.

Despite international waters representing nearly two-thirds of the world's oceans, only 1.2% is protected.

Environmental campaigners have called it a "missed opportunity".