‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out
‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out
Governments failing to cut emissions fast enough to meet Paris agreement goals and avoid disaster, major report says
I think we’ve already demonstrated our willingness to change, which is to say, we’ve already demonstrated how unwilling we are, as a whole, to change.
Isn’t much else to it. We will act too late, too little, and we will have some extremely hard times to endure at some point.
My only regret is that I will have brought children to this world to eat the consequences… 😩
So happy my partner and I decided to never have children. Humanity is doomed.
Yup were fucked, and I'm not fucked so no children anyway
When you say "we", what I hear is "conservatives". Normal people are willing to change. Conservatives are not. And since they protect the billionaire class, we are all stuck.
Conservatives are killing us. They know this and mock us for being upset about it.
Sorry, gonna hard disagree there.
The first off-ramp we had to get off of fossil fuels was nuclear energy. It wasn't the conservatives who blocked that exit.
If nuclear energy buildup in the 1990s had followed the trend of the 1970s and 1980s, we could have kept CO2 below 400 ppm.
The three groups who conspired against that decarbonization were: the coal lobby, anti-nuclear activists and labour unions (because coal unions were strong back then).
Only one of those groups were the rich conservatives.
Isn't that tautological?
I will hit this wall if I continue to speed at it with 100 km/h...
Hey, the first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club!
It is. Can't wait for something to actually stop fossil fuels and move us to new methods of transportation. The greed is pushing us toward our own demise.
Yes but what about
E N D L E S S
G R O W T H
Won’t someone please consider the shareholders?
An erection that never stops? Sign me up!
Protip: if you're taking Viagra and the erection lasts more than four hours, it's vitally important to seek medical attention; an everlasting erection is a ticket to losing your genitals.
This line on the chart needs to always go up or Bezos will cry :-(
weve tried nothing and were all out of ideas
We're doing a lot more than nothing, but renewables aren't yet growing fast enough to cause fossil fuel use to decline globally.
Yeah but what about those poor billionairs?
CO² taxes for oil wells/fracking and refineries?
Would make research on alternatives to plastic & co more interesting too.
We know