 Atmospheric carbon continues to rise, along with potent GHG's CH4 and N2O. Governments the world over are evidently doing whatever they can to avoid addressing it directly as an emergency. UAE, a petrostate, will host the next COP. Many scientists place ~450ppm atmospheric CO2e to be the point of no return, whereby self-reinforcing feedbacks become so established that any imagined means of reducing carbon beyond this point becomes futile. It's getting late. 4 comments
 @JulianOliver if not extinction, then we'll *maybe* finally start to pull our collective heads out of the oil companies' asses once we hit 450... but then I remember things like "rolling coal" exist, and that we're fighting brainwashed sometimes-idiots-sometimes-fools-sometimes-both who simp for Exxon like their life depends on it. We're fucked. @klardotsh I don't invest in pessimism or optimism really, both dangerous addictions of their own. Without saying too much I do believe there is only damage minimisation and preparedness at this stage. Huge change is coming. @klardotsh I think the important thing to remember, something that history has shown us in other contexts, is that it can always get worse, a lot worse. In our time, in this situation, insisting on drawdown is ever mission critical. Every activist out there, whether glued to a bank, environmental lawyer or policy reformist, is fighting for all of us. Every day/week/month we have before finally entering a Hothouse scenario, even if it can seem inevitable today, is a gift of time. |
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@JulianOliver Honestly, we've as a species decided to extinct ourselves at this point. I don't really see a path out of this one by now. Me might have the technical means to do various kinds of cleanup, and maybe activists will help us make useful strides here or there, but I firmly believe we're just fucked: the *huge* behavioral and political changes necessary to save us are scary and would require too many scary things to happen (read: almost certainly heads rolling) along the way.