Keeping the 1.5°C temperature goal alive "requires tearing out the poisoned root of the climate crisis: fossil fuels," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said.
"Israeli forces have killed more than 5,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. That's around 9 to 10 classrooms of students being obliterated from the Earth every day by the Israeli military's relentless offensive on Gaza."
While scientists were quick to point out that this was just a daily anomaly, not a permanent shift, it is a "canary in the coalmine" that "underscores the urgency of tackling greenhouse gas emissions."
Radical social change does not take place on its own, and surely not without viable solutions to the very problems confronting contemporary capitalist societies.
As long as Republicans control at least one chamber of Congress and refuse to fully fund the government for the entire year, Social Security and Medicare will be in danger.
