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Peter Kalmus

Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now

A wildfire burns Achaia<br>epa10765118 A wildfire burns at the Trapeza village, in Achaia Peloponnese, Greece, 23 July 2023. There is an extreme, category 5, fire risk high alert also for 24 July, for five Greek regions of Attica, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Western Greece and southern Aegean with the island of Rhodes, according to the Fire Risk Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection at the climate crisis and civil protection ministry. EPA/GIOTA LOTSARI
‘So long as we burn fossil fuels, far, far worse is on the way.’ Photograph: Giota Lotsari/EPA

We’ve passed into a ferocious new phase of global heating with much worse to come. Biden must declare a climate emergency.

I’m terrified by what’s being done to our planet. I’m also fighting to stop it. You, too, should be afraid while also taking the strongest action you can take. There has never been a summer like this in recorded history: shocking ocean heat, deadly land heat, unprecedented fires and smoke, sea ice melting faster than we’ve ever seen or thought possible. I’ve dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades, and, like many of my colleagues, I’ve been trying to warn you. As hard as I could. Now it’s here.

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