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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.
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.
Encouraging that is a really deliberate thing by the fossil fuels industry.
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
“Even if we 1.5C” DUDE WE JUST DID CAN YOU NOT READ
Yes we know we’ve got to do everything we can but it everyone in power decides to sacrifice us all for wealth the only option is global revolution and, uh, hit me
Its sorta duh. Most of the doomers were just about reality but only idiots take the give up path. Every year for the rest of your life and if you have them childrens or other relatives lives will be worse the less we try. Not to mention much of what we can do is part of making a new normal that deals with it better so its sorta a double return. Im talking insulation, thermal mass, geothermal, solar, wind, etc. Its not just about green its about comfort in the short term to.
getting to drawdown a year sooner would be like ending the Holocaust a year sooner. it should be obviously worthwhile.
the path it will actually take:
Its on us to prevent that
No one with any political power is even remotely trying to prevent that. Maybe we can have a huge war that kills billions to slow the rate of ascent. It is the most likely path that actually results in a timely emissions reduction that is politically tenable (see Iran v. Israel and Pakistan v. India for potential starting points, Ukraine v. Russia could escalate too, I suppose).
More likely, the climate will start killing us in greater quantities (famines, floods, hurricanes, droughts) resulting in an emission reduction. Eventually, it is a self correcting problem, but that most likely outcome maximizes suffering.
Well Iran vs Israel is already happening and escalating into probably a forever war but I doubt war will help climate change War itself also causes a fuck ton of emissions and environmental damage
It hasn’t really ramped up to anywhere near the levels I am talking about yet. I am looking at it from a perspective of WW3 woth billions dead before it lowers carbon emissions. Pretty that carbon will not be our worst concern among all of the fallout.
Xi seems to be putting China on a decarbonization trajectory. Not as fast as we need, but one that’s meaningful
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