Net Zero
Messy Human Reactions to Climate Change Are a Good Thing for the Planet
Human behavior is key to determining our climate future, but most scientific models don't take it into account
A young climate activist during a protest march on the "Youth Day" at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K.
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Looking at the climate future we face, you’d be well within reason to make a grim assessment of humanity. More than three decades after scientific consensus found that a hotter planet will bring disastrous impacts, we continue to pump increasing amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.