We've known the truth about climate change for decades now, writes CNN's jdsutter -- but the scale of our outrage in no way matches the magnitude of this disaster EarthDay
For years now, people like environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben have been screaming from the treetops that we need a World War II-scale mobilization to fight the scourge of climate change.
They're right, of course. And on Earth Day -- that 24-hour sliver of the calendar when we talk about the fact that humans exist on, and because of, a living planet -- it's clear not only that we are losing this war but that we still are failing to recognize it's taking place at all. I mean, yes, I've met Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who is"schooling world leaders" on climate policy and who started a global school walkout movement.
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