In non-surprising breaking news - we're fucked.
"The numbers paint a clear picture," the U.N. said. "To keep emissions below the critical 1.5-degree target set in Paris in 2015, countries must cut emissions by 42 percent overall by 2030 and achieve a 57 percent reduction by 2035."
Please remember that the Covid lockdowns reduced the global carbon emissions by less than 10%
In order to reach the climate goals, we will have to quadruple that level of downsizing and maintain it, indefinitely, within six years.
yeah nobody's doing shit lmao the ruling class is betting it all on either geoengineering or nuclear war
We'd essentially have had to turn off industrial society, all of it, a decade ago to actually accomplish anything like stopping it.
And the longer we wait, the more drastic the fix is going to be. We could have scaled back car usage and manufacturing 25 years ago in favor of building more trains (for example). But since we didn't do that, the next solution is to completely eliminate the automobile industry. And if we put that off (who am I kidding? Of course we're not gonna do anything), the next steps will be things like eliminating motorized transportation entirely (relying on bikes instead).
Yes, because "doomer", conceptually, is a coping mechanism used by people who cannot accept the reality of the horror that is coming down on us and instead of trying to cope with it and come out the other side ready to do whatever is possible to mitigate the harm they reject reality entirely.
I think we ought to start calling the “back to normal” people doomers tbh. they ain’t lookin up.
Cut emissions? What if, instead, I burn down the rainforest to generate booba pics?
"global climate disaster inevitable if..."
"global climate disaster inevitable"Headline's kinda misleading tbh, I think the 42% in 6 years from 2024-2030 is more drastic than the 13% from 2030-2035.
Love to live in a country where even pathetic half-measures aren't on the table. Death to America, Death to Capitalism, Death to the "West".
I remember back in 2018 that there was this big climate report that said we had 10 years left or else climate disaster would be inevitable. I remember because I was dooming over it hard.
But now, 6 years later, the goalpost shifted to 2035? Again the "in 10 years" thing?
This feels like it's trying to sell people hopium on something that can no longer be fixed. Make us think we have some arbitrary deadline so we'll remain calm.
This feels like it's trying to sell people hopium on something that can no longer be fixed.
It also keeps feeding into the fascist frenzy that "climate change is a hoax, they've been saying the world will end since the 70s"
And... that's not at all what the science said ever.
Ah, but did you consider that it doesn't affect me personally right now? Far left owned! :smuglord:
It's surreal seeing people still planning for a treat based future, getting a good career to buy a big house and doing all the consumer shit. Just grinding and side hustling until the very end.
As far as I know we've only got 6 years left, but hey happy to be wrong
