​​"​This is really happening.

The Arctic and the glaciers are melting. The oceans are rising and acidifying.  The corals are bleaching, the great forests dying and burning. The storms and floods, the droughts and heat waves, are intensifying. The farms and savannahs are parched and drying. Nations are disappearing. People are dying. Mass extinction is unfolding. And all of it sooner and faster than science predicted. The window in which to prevent the worst scenarios is closing before our eyes. And the fossil-fuel industry - which holds the fate of humanity in its carbon reserves - is doubling down, economically and politically, on all this destruction.  We face an unprecedented situation - a radical situation. It demands a radical response. This is about waking up, individually and collectively, to the climate catastrophe that is upon us - truly waking up to it, intellectually, morally and spiritually."  
What We're Fighting for Now, by Wen Stephenson, Beacon Press, 2015

What’s all the urgency about? 
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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math - Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is. Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone Magazine, July 2012.

Climate Change is Simple - Staff writer at Grist.org David Roberts describes the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms, TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege, April 2012.

A New Climate-Change Danger Zone? - How much does the climate have to change for it to be “dangerous”? Whether the “danger” zone lies below two degrees Celsius or above, the world seems bent on reaching it—with all the suffering and challenges to “civilized society” that go with it. The New Yorker, July 2015

World will pass crucial 2C global warming limit, experts warn - Carbon pledges from 147 nations to Paris climate summit ‘are not enough to stop temperature rise’.  theguardian, October 2015

Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago - Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. InsideClimate News, September 2015

When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job - Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it.  Esquire, August 2015