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data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1"> Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. It is the race of our lives. </h1>  <section class="section__h2-p-figure"> <div class="offset" data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1"> <h2 class="editable" data-cms-index="1" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> In 2100, the Earth is going to be around 2.5ºC warmer than it used to be. </h2> <p class="editable st" data-cms-index="2" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> We are already seeing the effects of climate change today in floods, fires, and storms. And the temperature keeps rising. By the end of the century, up to a quarter of the world is likely to be uninhabitable. </p> </div> <figure> <img alt="Photo of an iceberg in Antartica." class="editable" data-cms-index="3" data-cms-original-src="/img/v2images/iceberg.png" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" src="/img/v2images/iceberg.png?_cchid=9c6b9410c8ff2616268dbf4db25a684b" title="Photo of an iceberg in Antartica."> <figcaption class="caption-right"> <p class="editable" data-cms-index="4" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> The Pine Island Glacier recently spawned an iceberg over 300 sq km. </p> </figcaption> </figure> </section>  <div class="div__img--full-width"> <figure> <img alt="Global map of temperatures by 2070." class="editable" data-cms-index="5" data-cms-original-src="/img/humanclimateniche-redo.png" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" src="/img/humanclimateniche-redo.png?_cchid=56553d0187d358538c9e9cf9ebf80f7e"> <figcaption class="no-leaf"> <p class="editable" data-cms-index="6" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> This world map of average temperatures highlights in black those areas that are too hot for human habitation today, and in black shading those areas that will be too hot for humans by the year 2070. Such areas will include some of the most populated regions of the globe. Source: "<em>Future of the human climate niche</em>", Xu et al, PNAS 2020. </p> </figcaption> <p></p> </figure> </div>  <section class="section__h2-p-figure section__h2-p-figure--full-h2"> <h2 class="editable" data-cms-index="7" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1"> New kinds of breakthroughs will make the remaking of our economy easier. We will be able to stop climate change. We might even be able to reverse it. The problem is time. Can we do it fast enough to avoid the worst of the existential threat? </h2> <p class="editable st" data-cms-index="8" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1"> Humanity’s impact on the planet is out of control. We are draining the planet’s underground water supplies, we are denuding soils and dumping nutrients into the ocean, and we are wiping out other species, all at rates unprecedented for millions of years. We already know how to feed and power ourselves sustainably – but we are moving far too slowly. </p> <figure data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1.5"> <img alt="Aerial view of coal mine" class="editable" data-cms-index="9" data-cms-original-src="/uploads/home/coalmine.jpg" data-cms-original-srcset="/uploads/home/coalmine.jpg 795w, /uploads/home/coalmine@2x.jpg 1590w" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" src="/uploads/home/coalmine.jpg?_cchid=867a47c8a1ba1b9ee939362ee58a44e1" srcset="/uploads/home/coalmine.jpg?_cchid=867a47c8a1ba1b9ee939362ee58a44e1 795w, /uploads/home/coalmine@2x.jpg?_cchid=2a03756c6ac5b73cf7de0d52a8fa553d 1590w" width="795"> <figcaption class="no-leaf"> <p class="caption-left editable" data-cms-index="10" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> Open-pit coal mining is one of the most ecologically harmful activities of the industrial world. </p> </figcaption> </figure> </section>  <section class="section__h2-p-figure pv" style="margin-bottom: 0;"> <h2 class="editable" data-cms-index="11" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> We’ve known for decades that we were on this trajectory. It’s time to wake up. </h2> <p class="editable st" data-cms-index="12" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> But there’s hope – more than before. People are more concerned about climate than ever; now, for the first time, we have the technology to back that hope up. Technology exists to break free of fossil fuels and build a sustainable society. The last two decades have seen tremendous advances in solar power, in wind power, in batteries and electrification. Now they are the logical economic choices. </p> <figure data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1.5"> <div id="energyPricesChart" style="width:100%; height:400px;"></div> <figcaption class="no-leaf"> <p class="caption-right editable" data-cms-index="13" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html"> Solar energy, wind energy, and battery storage prices have declined explosively since 2010. </p> </figcaption> </figure> </section> <h2 class="h1 pv editable" data-cms-index="14" data-cms-source="/_layouts/home.html" data-scroll="" data-scroll-speed="1"> Beating climate change will require the best of humanity's talent, leadership, and innovation. To save the planet – to save ourselves – we need everyone's help. </h2> </main> </div>  <footer class="general--light_background" id="footer"> <div class="wo"> <div class="inner pv"> <p class="footer__paragraph editable" data-cms-index="0" data-cms-source="/_includes/footer.html"> The Grantham Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation. 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