Why Climate Goals Aren’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot Them
www.scientificamerican.com
Earth will likely warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, but we can’t give up on trying to get temperatures back down

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The key thing here is that the less overshoot the better, and the amount of overshoot we can afford is small.

  • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    3 days ago

    Considering that I have by now met several “the world is fucked anyway, so just let me drive my car and do whatever I want”-people, I guess article (headline)s like these make sense to have.

    • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      some pretty freeing schools of thought that allow people to think this way, it would literally eat at me acting this way … but I wish I could have that bliss sometimes