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The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Fifth Stage of Climate Awareness

The fourth stage of climate awareness is recognizing that two thirds of the CO2 that we emit every year comes from the burning of fossil fuels. We are drawing down this ancient carbon battery of Earth, millions of times faster than it was sequestered in the past by daily photosynthesis. The underlying decline rate of existing oil fields in the world is approaching 6% a year. To offset that, we have to drill faster and more and deeper in order to offset what's already depleting. So this is a one time pulse.

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