article_snippet.sent: The Carbon Dioxide Problem.
article_snippet.sent: These forests may look completely different, or burn down.
article_snippet.sent: Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech, told me that burning fossil fuels is like smoking.
article_snippet.sent: If you want to stay below 2 degrees, you have to reduce emissions at an amazing speed -- to an incredible degree," said Jaeger from the Global Climate Forum.
article_snippet.sent: Here's the best guess for what that "amazing speed" might need to look like: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by some 80% to 90% by 2050, said Jennifer Morgan, global director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute.
article_snippet.sent: Our position is 100% clean energy," said David Sievers, a senior campaigner for Avaaz.
article_snippet.sent: It's akin to killing the planet, basically.