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← Climate change is real, happening now, and the most urgent threat facing the human species.
17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 13 Dec 1968 to 14 Sept 2026.
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Read this korrent: Climate change is real, happening now, and the most urgent threat facing the human species.
Climate change is real, happening now, and the most urgent threat facing the human species.
Last stated 11 years ago
28 Feb 2016
LD
Leonardo DiCaprio — holds since 2016-02-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away. — tap to centre the map on it
A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Dec 2024
AF
Adam Frank — holds since 2024-12-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it. — tap to centre the map on it
All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it.
Last stated a year ago
4 Sept 2025
DH
Dave Hone — holds since 2025-09-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Carbon capture technology is worth continuing to research, even though it is not yet a solution to climate change. — tap to centre the map on it
Carbon capture technology is worth continuing to research, even though it is not yet a solution to climate change.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
7 Sept 2026
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Bill McKibben — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Carbon emissions should be priced and government subsidies for oil, coal and gas companies should be ended. — tap to centre the map on it
Carbon emissions should be priced and government subsidies for oil, coal and gas companies should be ended.
Last stated 12 years ago
23 Sept 2014
LD
Leonardo DiCaprio — holds since 2014-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: China scaled solar and batteries when America refused to because the CCP got scared of climate change. — tap to centre the map on it
China scaled solar and batteries when America refused to because the CCP got scared of climate change.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
14 Sept 2026
NS
Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Climate change is at its core an energy problem, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the main driver of emissions. — tap to centre the map on it
Climate change is at its core an energy problem, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the main driver of emissions.
Last stated 18 years ago
3 Nov 2008
DM
David MacKay — holds since 2008-11-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Climate change is intensifying wildfires such as Canada's boreal fires. — tap to centre the map on it
Climate change is intensifying wildfires such as Canada's boreal fires.
Last stated 2 months ago
21 Jul 2026
EA
Emily Atkin — holds since 2026-07-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Climate change is making wildfires significantly more severe. — tap to centre the map on it
Climate change is making wildfires significantly more severe.
Last stated 2 months ago
12 Aug 2026
AD
Andrew Dessler — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it
A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero
Last stated 58 years ago
13 Dec 1968
GH
Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth — tap to centre the map on it
A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth
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Rachel Carson — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less. — tap to centre the map on it
A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 May 2023
GM
George Monbiot — holds since 2023-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building. — tap to centre the map on it
A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building.
Last stated 2 years ago
18 Apr 2024
AV
Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-04-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants. — tap to centre the map on it
About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
DP
Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model. — tap to centre the map on it
Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model.
Last stated a year ago
2 Sept 2025
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Benedict Evans — holds since 2025-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Degrowth shared out equally would cut the incomes of everyone above the world average by about two-thirds. — tap to centre the map on it
Degrowth shared out equally would cut the incomes of everyone above the world average by about two-thirds.
Last stated 9 years ago
18 Nov 2017
BM
Branko Milanovic — holds since 2017-11-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Degrowth would require the world to go from an inequality worse than South Africa's to a complete equality no recorded society has ever had. — tap to centre the map on it
Degrowth would require the world to go from an inequality worse than South Africa's to a complete equality no recorded society has ever had.
Last stated 9 years ago
18 Nov 2017
BM
Branko Milanovic — holds since 2017-11-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Freezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty. — tap to centre the map on it
Freezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty.
Last stated 9 years ago
18 Nov 2017
BM
Branko Milanovic — holds since 2017-11-18 — tap for who they are
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