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Hope is a silly word. It’s a helpless word. We can’t hope for things to happen, otherwise they won’t happen. The extreme weather that we’re experiencing across the globe is no coincidence. The Earth has passed the tipping point. In our snapshot of time, we are at a critical point in human history. We have to rise above a sinking ship. We are nearing the end of a sustainable world. We have crossed the horizon into an unknown sphere. We continue to burn. Siberia is warming. Once the permafrost releases millions of years of carbon into the atmosphere our deserts will become ever dryer, ocean levels will rise, floods will become more frequent and all of the Biblical apocalyptic visions will become a reality. Even the ancients knew we were destined to be our own demise. It seems as though we have become Icarus. Nobody could have imagined how close to the Sun we soared with our seemingly limitless capacity for technology and innovation. But now we’ve opened the j...