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What if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
Season 1
Episode 17
Imagine that aliens landed and gifted us a clean, limitless energy source. Instead of killing each other over this technology, we decided to transform the world into a carbon-free society. This wondrous source would power our homes, industries, cars and planes, and humanity’s annual rate of carbon pollution would almost instantly fall to zero. What would that mean for global warming?
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5:26
We have enough fossil fuels to make Earth intolerable so we must not burn them all.

4:17
Can we learn anything from almost fixing the hole in the ozone layer that will help us?

5:25
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4:29
What can the adorable pika teach humans about adapting to global warming?

4:12
What can you do to make a meaningful difference in decreasing the carbon footprint?

4:40
Our experience of weather can have a big effect on how we view climate change.

4:53
Climate change affects humans in every corner of the world.

4:17
Nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide.

4:43
We've known about climate change for awhile, but why do we find it hard to act?