Floods, storms, and extreme heat can cause damage to buildings, disrupt transport, and affect health. Damage to marine ecosystems – Rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and ocean anoxia (lack of oxygen) are damaging to marine life such as fish and coral reefs. Others may elect not to consider any of this at all, and simply to enjoy Hilary Mantel's smart, astringent and marvelously upsetting fiction".

You say they give trivial messages,” she observes to her steely assistant Colette, “but that’s because they’re trivial people. Comparing her and Princess Diana to royal women of history, Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette, she was talking about how a woman is made into a “jointed doll” by the media and the royal PR industry. Religion always impinges on Mantel’s fiction, but not because, like those Catholic converts Muriel Spark and Graham Greene whom she has diligently read, she uses it to detect any providential shape to events. Right now, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are the highest they’ve been in the last 800,000 years.

The factories and facilities that produce our goods are significant sources of greenhouse gases; in 2020, they were responsible for fully 24 percent of U.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Burning petroleum-based fuel in combustion engines releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The Biden administration officially approved the disastrous Willow oil drilling Project—and NRDC and partners are suing to hold it accountable. Switching energy systems from fossil fuels to renewables like solar or wind will reduce the emissions driving climate change. Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – are by farthe largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. They leave semi-literate notes and mysterious tokens – a new can-opener in the middle of a room – as assurances of their malignity. But farmers and ranchers—especially Indigenous farmers, who have been tending the land according to sustainable principles—are reminding us that there’s more than one way to feed the world.