Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there’s hope—and everyone needs to pitch in.
That’s what leading voices in the world of climate science, art, and activism told us during the first session of RE:WIRED Green, coming together to tell the same basic story: We’re lucky to exist, and we’re messing it up, but all is not lost.
Earth existed for billions of years and experienced multiple mass extinction events before modern humans showed up. That’s according to Kenneth Lacovara, a paleontologist
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