Even in the best case scenario of we stop doing anything at all that harms the planet this second, we will still be in for a hell of a time within like 20 years. Most people aren’t willing to change their lives to this degree, so we will keep going down this path until its inevitable conclusion, the end of civilization as we know it. Anything less is a copium.
There is coal, oil, and gas in the ground. There are forests yet standing. We’re too late for no change — but not too late to make a very big difference in the outcome.
Even in the best case scenario of we stop doing anything at all that harms the planet this second, we will still be in for a hell of a time within like 20 years. Most people aren’t willing to change their lives to this degree, so we will keep going down this path until its inevitable conclusion, the end of civilization as we know it. Anything less is a copium.
Success is far from guaranteed. But doom is in no way inevitable. I’ll be fighting for every tenth of a degeee