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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Connover.

And, you know, we've talked a lot about the environment on this podcast.

If you listen to this podcast, you probably give a shit about the planet

and you want to save it as best you can.

I know I do.

And, you know, just a few weeks ago, we had Saul Griffith on the show

to discuss how we really can stave off the worst of climate change today

if we can muster the political will to massively electrify our power grid.

Now, that's an incredibly optimistic, uplifting message, and I support it.

I also don't want that to prevent us from having a clear-eyed view

of how massively we have already altered the planet.

The truth is that we can't just fix the Earth or reverse climate change.

All we can do is prevent the worst effects that are to come

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