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by SOLAR_FIELDS 424 days ago
And honestly 85% would be pretty damn good all by itself. That would significantly stem the bleeding and give time to address the long tail
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I thought we were past the stem the bleeding point?
There are reasons to be optimistic!

Lots of bad things will happen from climate change, but we can mitigate the impact of many of those issues.

How many people do you think are going to die painful deaths because of climate change?
IPCC estimates are about a quarter of a million excess deaths per year.
Yes, but GP asked, how many of those are painful?