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This is our kids earth. I think my kids are smart and I know they will demand change. I will be at their side. The time to make sacrifices is now and this makes me look towards Norway with envy that they would choose environment over money. Good job. Climate change is real.

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Anyone who just walks outside and treasures their surroundings and the environment understands this point. People who want to drill for the short term view don't see the beauty they are destroying for lifetimes ahead of us.

Problem is, it might be too late. The time is indeed now, and yet the countries best positioned to make the change (both largest polluters per capita and richest, so able to make the sacrifices) are pretending the problem does not exist, for the sake of short-term profits for a selected elite.

I find this incredibly depressing. Should I teach my daughter to ski? Is it going to be of any use in 20 years?

Present models do not predict that ice will go away in 20 years. +2C in 2060 is catastrophic for many reasons but it will not abolish snow.

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