• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This comic is from 2009, over 14 years ago. Good thing we took action and have made great strides towards combating climate change during that time. Could you imagine how screwed we’d be if our world leaders had sat on their asses and did fuck all instead? /S

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Okay. We still need to do a lot more. The science is clear that this is the make or break decade. Either we severely curtail emissions now or we break the 1.5C/3F limit for the bad scenarios to happen.

        And everything has happened faster than predicted so any millennials thinking this isn’t going to really effect their life is deluding themselves. It’s just going to hit while we have silver hair. We’ll all be hungry, thirsty, and trying to figure out several billion refugees.

        • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          I’ve been hearing “it’s make or break right now” for 20 years. I’m pretty sure we were absolutely screwed a long time ago.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Yes well at first we wanted to stop any increase. So there was a deadline for that. Then we wanted to cap it and the earlier we act the better it is. Now we’ve realized that at 1.5C some nasty chain reactions kick in and we’d really like to avoid that. However if you want to be reductionist about it then yes the time to act was when we learned the basics of this problem in the 1800’s.

            But the next best time is now. It just gets worse the longer we wait until at some point the planet hands us an eviction notice.

    • navi@lemmy.tespia.org
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      10 months ago

      We aren’t doing enough but we are doing something.

      Renewables are up YoY and solar and wind are quickly becoming the predominant deployed energy generators (in the US anyway).