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What if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?

Hot Mess is a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves. Premiering April 19th, 2018!

What if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?

We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century Episode 17 | 5m 14s | CC

Imagine that aliens landed and gifted us a clean, limitless energy source. Instead of killing each other over this technology, we decided to transform the world into a carbon-free society. This wondrous source would power our homes, industries, cars and planes, and humanity’s annual rate of carbon pollution would almost instantly fall to zero. What would that mean for global warming?

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