"find a way to speak about the future in the present tense"...
Is signals a strategy of hope because if everyone in rural China lives like this they would cut their consumption of coal and firewood in half. Right now we have to find a way to speak about the future in the present tense.

Deos it mean that we have to seize the opportunity and act immediately?

Trucks of thanks!!!!!

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"find a way to speak about the future in the present tense"...
Is signals a strategy of hope because if everyone in rural China lives like this they would cut their consumption of coal and firewood in half. Right now we have to find a way to speak about the future in the present tense.

Deos it mean that we have to seize the opportunity and act immediately?

Trucks of thanks!!!!!

Answer

Essentially, yes.
Assuming that the writer is talking about a potential catastrophe in the future, (as a result of human-accelerated climate change), then they are saying that people should be behaving as if the disaster had already happened for there to be any chance of either averting or mitigating the disaster.

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Sorry, spelling errors:
The first word should be an "It"
And the first in the last but one paragraph should be "Does"

:P

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