Guest column: The climate crisis, an existential threat

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Guest column: The climate crisis, an existential threat

Published: Aug 6, 2021, 4:00 PM

An article in the January 2020 journal BioScience, endorsed by more than 11,000 scientists worldwide, stated that “the climate crisis has arrived” and that an “immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis.”

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Guest column: The Future of Solar Energy in North Georgia

Published: Jul 2, 2021, 10:00 AM

As the climate crisis continues to ravage the United States with more frequent and severe droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters, it is abundantly clear that the transfer from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy is urgent and essential.

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