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."
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".
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
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).
We'd essentially have had to turn off industrial society, all of it, a decade ago to actually accomplish anything like stopping it.
"global climate disaster inevitable if..."
"global climate disaster inevitable"Is it really being a "doomer" if fucking nothing has been done for decades about this and so-called "pledges" from the corpos burning the planet down were always bullshit and are now officially being abandoned?
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?
What if, instead, I burn down the rainforest to generate booba pics?
those rain forests are being burned down primarily to power "AI" driven malware, spyware, and to expand the techbro panopticon!
