Climate impacts grow, and U.S. must act, says new report

The United States government has released it's 4th National Climate assessment and the info is not great. It highlights California's increased risk for wildfires and Iowa's agricultural struggles thanks to global warming. The second half focuses on how these changes to our climate are already effecting us at the economic and social fabric of the United States. The main problem is we must reduce the amount of green house gas or matters will just grow into bigger problems.

My thoughts on this is there is definitely a problem that we should start focusing on. We continue to push ideas back and back because we don't want to make changes that will hurt our lives, rather than help the environment.

The Article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/climate-change-US-report0/

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