Today we know that six Neanderthals who lived in what is now France were eaten by their fellow Neanderthals some 100,000 years ago. This is according to gruesome evidence of the cannibalistic event discovered by scientists in a cave in the 1990s. Now, researchers seem to have figured out that Global Warming was the reason for these Neanderthals – including two children – to become victims of cannibalism.

The Lancet Commission detailed some viable solutions against pollution, but also emphasized the need for accountability and responsibility of all the involved parties: citizens and civil societies, governments and officials, but also the importance of vested interests, that may or not interfere with the solutions at hand.

New climate models have shown that if little is done to curb carbon emissions and slow global warming, about 95% of the ice volume of the glaciers in the European Alps will be lost by the end of the century.

As it’s clear that we need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, there is also the need for viable markets to sell it to. We currently have two such existing markets: seafood and rocks for construction.

Removing atmospheric CO2 is critical because we are currently at a level not seen since before humans evolved. For about 800,000 years, until the Industrial Revolution, global CO2 levels were, on average, 280 ppm. That's the level at which our species and civilization evolved, and the optimal level needed to cement a healthy future for our planet. That level of CO2 should also be the stated goal of the Green New Deal (GND).