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While the world melts. (Photo: Takver)

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While the mainstream media is fixated on all things Trump, climate change continues unabated. We are so preoccupied with the here and now that the crossing of environmental thresholds that should set off blaring alarms hardly gets noticed. Caught up in our daily lives, we overlook signs that life itself is at risk for many.

Indeed, the scientific warnings are being sounded with increasing regularity. On May 2, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reported that the monthly average for April exceeded 410 parts per million for the first time in recorded history:

The average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 410.31 parts per…