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Climate experts warn the slow-motion train crash has sped up
Original: Climate change is often described as a train crash in slow motion. It's a train crash, but not in slow motion anymore. #
Commentators in climate circles are reviving the familiar metaphor of climate change as a train crash in slow motion, but with an urgent twist: they argue the crash is no longer slow. The line, shared widely on the fediverse, reflects growing alarm over accelerating extreme weather and the sense that impacts once projected for decades are arriving now.
Why now: Rising climate impacts and extreme weather are prompting experts to say warnings of gradual change have become immediate reality.
Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 5 snapshots from 5 h ago to 16 min ago.
Evidence
- Climate change is often described as a train crash in slow motion. It's a train crash, but not in slow motion anymore. # ClimateChange · Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy · 29
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