Analysis: Greta Thunberg is right - we need to stop relying on unproven technologies to fuel our carbon addiction

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News analysis: We cannot continue burning fossil fuels now and defer drastic mitigation until later

In this decade, humans have become ever more aware of climate change. Calls for leaders to act echo around the globe as the signs of a changing climate become ever more difficult to ignoreFierce wildfires have flared up in numerous countries. The damage being caused is unprecedented: 103 people were killed in wildfires last year in California, one of the places best prepared, best equipped to fight such blazes in the worldEntire towns have been razed.

 

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It's hard to believe that a national newspaper seriously endorses the comments of a sixteen year old uneducated individual without supporting evidence from a range of expert opionion!

Nuclear fusion is the future

Greta is a teenager with autism. The ppl using her are SHAMEFUL.

Least someone trying

She should not be having to tell anyone any of this because all goverments know this but all these big companys thats killing us are also who lines all our goverments pockets and fules our econ,so how do we win

*ahem* fossil fuel taxes?

The next level of society is: a circular economy driven by electricity and hydrogen.

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