By Steve Austin
The climate crisis is accelerating. The only way to avoid the worst impacts is to end fossil fuel use as rapidly as possible while drawing down excess CO2 in the atmosphere. There are no other solutions.
In light of this reality, institutional and organizational leaders must ask themselves one of the following questions:
How will the institution or organization function without using any fossil fuels? The implication of this question is that the institution or organization will find a way to continue without fossil fuels.
If that question is too difficult, then the other question is: how will the organization or institution function in a world being devastated by climate catastrophe?
That’s it. Those are the choices we have. There is no middle ground, no “un-extreme” options, no way to simply ignore the reality. It will affect everyone, eventually.
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