As a worldwide community we are--and have been--at a point of no return for climate change. To date, while the world has made incremental progress toward curbing global greenhouse gas emissions, these efforts have not been nearly impactful enough to make a significant dent in the work that needs to be done to avoid letting the world warm more than 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial averages (the goal set by the Paris accord and other major climate change scientists, think tanks, and policymakers). Speaking of major climate change scientists,…
