In the first half of our discussion on the global climate crisis, we discuss the difficult reality we find ourselves in: quickly passing milestones, after which there's no turning back. We look at some of the past decades, discuss key facts and statistics about our rainforests and oceans, laugh at some reactionary discourse, and do our best to grapple with the scale of what this means for our species.

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References:

• Graph of anomaly creating new curve in global temperatures: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKoz_0SjDvsY/v1/-1x-1.png
• Chemical products and deforestation modify Amazon River water: https://infoamazonia.org/en/2021/10/20/chemical-products-and-deforestation-modify-amazon-river-water/
• The great Atlantic Sargassum belt: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw7912
• IPCC Reports: https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
• BBC article on 1.5 degrees limit: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602293
• NOAA Arctic Report 2016: https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2016
• 'Zombie' fires in Siberia: https://www.insider.com/zombie-wildfires-in-siberia-smoldered-beneath-ice-reignited-2020-9, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/3/state-of-emergency-declared-in-siberia-over-raging-wildfires
• The effects of Bolsonaro's Climate Change Denial: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/28/brazil_jair_bolsonaro_unprecedented_amazon_fires
• IPCC Report changed due to lobbying: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58982445
• Agricultural wastage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X16302384

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