00:01If you look at the last 12,000 years, up to the last few decades,
00:07you'll see a time of climate stability where CO2 was at around 270 parts per million.
00:14And this is what allowed humanity to flourish.
00:18Apart from the occasional catastrophic volcanic blast, earthquake, tsunami or flood,
00:24life on planet Earth was pretty good, climactically speaking.
00:28But then around 1760 came the Industrial Revolution.
00:33Powered by fossil fuels, it led to the fastest increase in CO2 levels in the planet's history.
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