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'Doom loops' are accelerating climate change—but we can break them

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'Doom loops' are accelerating climate change—but we can break them

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Vicious cycles are accelerating climate change. One is happening at the north pole, where rising temperatures caused by record levels of fossil fuel combustion are melting more and more sea ice.

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… all of humanity’s modern problems cannot be solved
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  They can be solved but will create more and bigger problems. Just like it’s been since we were domesticated by grains.

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