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How a 'Carbon Cage' Blocks Climate Mitigation

18 Nov 2022 | Abstracted from Scientific American

"We live in a carbon cage, built by industrial capitalism, its dependence on fossil fuels and its dogma of limitless growth on a planet with finite resources; if we do not break this stranglehold, we will continue to speed toward rapid and catastrophic crisis.

"Current country pledges to the Paris agreement not only fall short of the agreement’s basic goal to limit warming to under 2 degrees C..."

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