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The oil sands, pictured in Fort McMurray, Alta. Climate change is not a distant threat but rather a current reality. Without an immediate and accelerating transformation of our fossil fuel-based energy system, global average temperatures will rise more than 1.5-degree Celsius as soon as 2030.The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY JUAN MORENO-CRUZ AND SARAH BURCH

June 7, 2021

Climate change is not a distant threat but rather a current reality. Without an immediate and accelerating transformation of our fossil fuel-based energy system, global average temperatures will rise more than 1.5-degree Celsius as soon as 2030. We know that this level of warming will lead to height...

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