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At first, the painter thinks that Javi is there to

McKibben writes that private companies connected to fossil fuel interests have lobbied to slow down uses of solar energy.

The author reports that rising sea levels and melting ice caps were originally predicted to occur at the end of this century, but they are occurring now.

Javi’s mother

McKibben explains that although there have been other times in the history of the Earth when carbon dioxide has gone into the atmosphere in greater amounts, there has not been a time when it has gone into the atmosphere at such high speed. 

The Anthropocene is described as our current era because (check all that apply):

Gregor discovers that

McKibben reports that recently a major fossil fuel company said it would spend 1/100 of its budget to back the fight for a carbon tax of $40 for a ton of oil, but climate scientists believe that such a tax would not have enough of an effect at this point. 

What kind of relationship does Gregor have with his boss?

Before his death, Kafka instructed his friend Max Brod to