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traditions are based. We are batling to preserve not only the ecosystems
in which we live, but the hope for an expansive and joyous life for our-
selves and others—the very hope on which we ultimately stake nearly
everything we do. Let us face the abyss together, then, in the coming
chapters, knowing that in doing so, we may be catching a glimpse of our
actual future—or perhaps learning so much from that glimpse that we
will fight even harder to keep it at bay.

Notes

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68. Johan Rockström and others, “A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” Nature
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69. Robert B. Semple, Jr., “Remember Kyoto? Most Nations Don't,” New York
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70. S. Pacala and R. Socolow, “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate

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71. Martin I. Hoffert, “Farewell to Fossil Fuels?” Science , volume 329, number
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72. Justin Gillis, “Carbon Emissions Show Biggest Jump Ever Recorded,” New
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science/earth/record-jump-in-emissions-in-2010-study-finds.html. This
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73. Monbiot, Heat , 16.

74. See the data at CO2now, htp://co2now.org/.

75. Monbiot, Heat , 16.

76. Monbiot, Heat , 15; see note 122 (page 227), which refers to a paper cited in
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7 7. See Mark Hertsgaard, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
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