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'We just need more hands': Climate experts weigh in on what we can save
Two experts explain why they think warming is on people’s minds more and what the public can do to help curb climate change.
In the decades-long struggle to forestall climate change, some moments have seemed like turning points. In 1992, with much fanfare, the world’s nations signed a treaty at Rio de Janeiro promising action; in 2015, after contentious negotiations, they pledged in Paris to adopt national plans to limit greenhouse emissions. Yet through it all, global greenhouse emissions kept rising—until 2020, when they fell some 7 percent, as a result of reduced fossil fuel usage during global COVID-19 lockdowns.
Ahead of another international gathering in Glasgow this November aimed at reducing carbon emissions, the U.S. Congress is now considering major legislative action on climate change. And the public
