"Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts"
The UN implies that the only way we'll be able to stop global warming, is if we implement socialism immediatly.
The 1.5°C degree limit is important because once we cross it, a domino-effect of self-reinforcing mechanisms is activated, see:
- https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abn7950
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
Every IPCC report in the last twenty years has underestimated both the degree to which the planet has warmed, and the degree at which that warming is accelerating. People who thought there was hope were delusional.