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The newest climate change report from the United Nations makes for grim reading. It warns that some of the changes we're seeing thanks to the warming planet are here to stay. The good news, though, is that there's still time to prevent the worst possible outcomes from coming true. "But that still leaves a question that I’ve been struggling to answer: How do you get people to care about a dying planet?" Hayes Brown writes.
Unlike the individual calls to action of the 1990s, "the IPCC is calling for is a total societal shift as every country on the planet ends use of fossil fuels entirely by 2050," Brown writes. "It’s a big ask for millions of Americans who are convinced that any changes automatically mean a decrease in their standard of living."
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