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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
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sometimes the western world feels like it exists in a state of cognitive dissonance -- on one hand you got people concerned (rightly so) about climate change like here, but on the the other hand, the western world supports governments that keep affordable & scalable green tech that can mitigate climate change out of our hands and ramp up fossil fuel production to the highest levels in history like the biden administration did, in both respects.
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