Technological advancements like miniaturization of sensors, high-speed data transfer, and enhanced storage capabilities have led to a new wave of satellites specially built for tracking pollution and pinpointing sources of emissions.

NASA image shows how carbon dioxide shifts

“The impact of global warming would be much more severe than the Great Depression; it would be ten times as deep as the more recent Great Recession, which still so rattles us. And it would not be temporary. It is hard to imagine any system surviving that kind of decline intact, no matter how big”.

— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming 

Calling Climate Change an impending catastrophe would amount to a fatalistic resignation — deeming it inevitable and shirking from what ought to be done. As we build our future on unprecedented technological progress, we undermine the climate at our own peril. Greenhouse gases such…