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I wrote a shorter version and enlisted scientific illustrators to draw some pictures:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

Here are the sources used to craft the book:

https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf

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> Choices Burning fossil fuels has put life on Earth in peril; our children face an immense carbon dioxide cleanup, devastating climate changes, or both. We can curtail the most catastrophic outcomes, but time to do so grows alarmingly brief. If we choose air conditioner and refrigerator coolants based on hydrocarbon refrigerants; if we urge politicians to invest in on-shore wind turbines; if we reduce food waste; if we eat less meat; and if we support restoration of tropical forests... If we take these actions, there is hope.

You nicely avoided Nuclear Power which is the real game changer if you want to produce energy at scale with very little CO2.

Yup. Another issue is that there are still many things we cannot do with electricity alone, for example steel production, which accounts for 7-9% of CO2 emissions.

Thank you for sharing this. This reminded of an amazing exhibit I saw in Tokyo, at the National Museum of Nature and Science. I don't have much to add, I just wanted to thank you, it was a very enjoyable read.

That's super nice! Quick question - what does the "13,813 ± 58 Ma" mean below every title? Is that some kind of time measurement from the Big Bang?

Ma means mega annum, or millions of years. That's roughly when the event took place, relative to today. The line is a timeline from the time the universe inflated until present day. The orange dot is a visual depiction of where the event occurred along the timeline.

Wow, the bibliography is 136 pages. Looks like a lot of work went into the book.

This is neat. Dig the illustrations. Would love to see a kid’s version of this.

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