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On the same day, he retweeted the Atlantic: "There Is Little Hope Left of Keeping Global Temperature in the 'Safe' Zone http://theatln.tc/ZxV3w8 ."Clearly, Ebert was deeply worried. In that final post, he likens the degree of incipient climate catastrophe to the Cuban missile crisis. Though this time, he writes, "the line has not been drawn on a map." Then his language gets downright apocalyptic:This time the enemy, if we can use the word in this context, is an American lobbyist group. They seem focused on maximizing profits and shareholder benefits, at the cost of any environmental conscience. It seems possible that their policies will lead to a different kind of seasonal calendar. Instead of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, this new generation will know Blizzard, Flood, Heat and Fire. Month follows month as the seasons tear themselves apart.You can't blame him. A lobbyist group fighting efforts to reduce the industrial pollution that is frying the planet must seem particularly amoral to a man staring death in the face, a man who understands the import of what science tells us about our warming climate. The fiery language is perfectly befitting, too. It must have seemed so absurdly infuriating, from where he was sitting, having so thoroughly absorbed the imagery and viscera of climate change from so many documentaries, to watch industry chiefs and Republican leaders time and again thwart efforts to address a crisis that endangers millions, if not billions of lives and livelihoods around the globe.Global warming is now epic and unprecedented, long-term study finds. dld.bz/cnXhr
— Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) March 8, 2013
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