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    ACTION IS OUR ONLY OPTION AGAINST CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

    Aug 16, 2021 3 minutes
    Image: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    We are in the midst of “global, social evil”, according to climate activists, after a bombshell global warming report shone a light on slow progress being made in the face of humanity’s greatest threat.

    Today’s politicians will be the last to have a chance to get the planet to net-zero carbon emissions. That was the verdict of the blistering forecast on the climate emergency released by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) after a summer full of floods, fires and deadly heat waves.

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