“For instance, you need neodymium for wind turbines—but there’s seven times more of it than you’d need to power half the world. Electric cars take lithium for batteries—but there’s enough lithium just in the known resources for three billion cars, and at the moment we only have 800 million.”
This is shocking. We have an abundance of resources, yet we are not using them! I feel grateful that we have the resources but frustrated we are not using them to the best of our ability.
our foes
I love how the author uses this metaphor of the war that really emphasizes the intensity of climate change.
Overall this year, Greenland had a net ice loss of about 350 billion tons, about 20 percent more than the average in recent years and enough to add one millimeter to sea levels by itself.
Is there anyway to regenerate the ice or restore the glaciers that have been lost?
All the time we’re breaking records in temperatures,”
How often are we breaking records? monthly? seasonally? yearly?
The amount of Arctic sea ice has declined so rapidly that the region may see ice-free summers by the 2030s.
Though I was aware of the urgency of the ice melting, I didn't know that we might see ice-free summers so soon!