Nsible since it was carbon burning in eighteenth century England that lit the fuse of everything that has followed But that is a fable about historical villainy that acuits those of us alive todayand unfairly The majority of the burning has come since the premiere of Seinfeld Since the end of World War II the figure is about percent The story of the industrial worlds kamikaze mission is the story of a single lifetimethe planet brought from apparent stability to the brink of catastrophe in the years between a baptism or bar mitzvah and a funeral We all know those lifetimes When my father was born in among his first memories the news of Pearl Harbor and the mythic air force of the industrial propaganda films that followed the climate system appeared to most human observers steady Scientists had understood the greenhouse effect had understood the way carbon produced by burned wood and coal and oil could hothouse the planet and diseuilibrize everything on it for three uarters of a century But they had not yet seen the effect not really not yet which made it seem less like an observed fact than a dark prophecy to be fulfilled only in a very distant futureperhaps never By the time my father died inweeks after the desperate signing of the Paris Agreement the climate system was tipping toward devastation passing the threshold of carbon concentration parts per million in the earths atmosphere in the eerily banal language of climatologythat had been for years the bright red line environmental scientists had drawn in the rampaging face of modern industry saying Do not cross Of course we kept going just two years later we hit a monthly average ofand guilt saturates the planets air as much as carbon though we choose to believe we do not breathe it The single lifetime is also the lifetime of my mother born into German Jews fleeing the smokestacks through which their relatives were incinerated and now enjoying her seventy third year in an American commodity paradise a paradise supported by the factories of a developing world that has in the space of a single lifetime too manufactured its way into the global middle class with all the consumer enticements and fossil fuel privileges that come with that ascent electricity private cars air travel red meat She has been smoking for fifty eight of those years always unfiltered ordering the cigarettes now by the carton from China It is also the lifetime of many of the scientists who first raised public alarm about climate change some of whom incredibly remain working todaythat is how rapidly we have arrived at this promontory Roger Revelle who first heralded the heating of the planet died inbut Wallace Smith Broecker who helped popularize the term global warming still drives to work at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory across the Hudson every day from the Upper West Side sometimes picking up lunch at an old Jersey filling station recently outfitted as a hipster eatery in the s he did his research with funding from Exxon a company now the target of a raft of lawsuits that aim to adjudicate responsibility for the rolling emissions regime that today barring a change of course on fossil fuels threatens to make parts of the planetor less unlivable for humans by the end of this century That is the course we are speeding so blithely alongtothan four degrees Celsius of warming by the year According to some estimates that would mean that whole regions of Africa and Australia and the United States parts of South America north of Patagonia and Asia south of Siberia would be rendered uninhabitable by direct heat desertification and flooding Certainly it would make them inhospitable and manyregions besides This is our itinerary our baseline Which means that if the planet was brought to the brink of climate catastrophe within the lifetime of a single generation the responsibility to avoid it belongs with a single generation too We all also know that second lifetime It is oursA New York Times.
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