With evidence mounting on the failure to limit global warming to 1.5C, do you think global carbon emissions will be low enough by 2050 to at least avoid the most catastrophic climate change doomsday scenarios forecast by the turn of the century?
I am somewhat hopeful most developed countries will get there but I wonder if developing countries will have the ability and inclination to buy into it as well.
No. We’re completely fucked. Any response that starts with “Well, we have a chance if humans collectively <fil in>” you know that’s not going to happen. I suppose maybe every country could go full authoritarian like China, Myanmar, or North Korea and then just dictate how things are going to be, then maybe, but let’s get back to the real world. Capitalism won’t die until society dies. It’s the parasite that kills its host.
Go out and vote, they say. So I did. Over 3 decades of voting. Only to end up with some corporate geriatrics running things, as always. Well, go out and make a change they say. So I did, walking my precinct, trying to drum up support for more rational, progressive candidates. Only to end up with some corporate geriatrics as the choices again. People suck. People in groups suck more. You people can do what you want, but I’m just going to sit back in my chair on the porch and cheer the entire world burning down at this point. Fuck everyone. It’s a good thing that I’ve gotten apathetic in my dotage, as I think otherwise I’d have a picture in my pocket of the lucky one as Devo said.