Commentary: The failure at Glasgow and what needs to happen next
by Peter Kalmus, Los Angeles Times
Nov 16, 2021
3 minutes
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The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. The soft pledges made at COP26 might have been acceptable decades ago, but not now.
The world needs to shift into climate emergency mode, and it needs to happen this year. To use a science metaphor, what we need is a phase transition — as when a saturated liquid crystallizes
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