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Are we the next asteroid?
TED Climate
What if We All Ascended to Morrow?
Even if we all disappeared to morrow, our choices would continue to impact the planet. People's pension for burning coal and oil and natural gas has spread tiny bits of soot all over the planet. Smudge corresponds with a meteoric rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Soot can actually still be found in ancient rocks from the volcanic fires of 66 million years ago. It's a record of the cataclysm touched off by an asteroid at the end of the late pretaceous period. O course, there is an important difference between us and an asteroid. A space rock has no choice but to follow gravity. We can choose to do differently. And if we do,
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