Keep in mind whenever you see these "we have X <timeframe>" quotes, they're usually an attempt to fit a complicated series of graphs into a short English senten

Keep in mind whenever you see these "we have X <timeframe>" quotes, they're usually an attempt to fit a complicated series of graphs into a short English sentence/headline, so they will always be wildly reductive. If your knee jerk reaction is to take the contrarian/devils-advocate counter point because you assume it can't be that reductive or simple, you are failing at media studies in the 21 century 101. The context for the quote is, roughly speaking, the graph in the bottom left corner of this infographic put out by the IPCC in their Special Report on 1.5C: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/SPM1_figure-final-e1541758557589-947x1024.png https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/SPM1... The most important thing to understand about that chart is that it is considered a baked in assumption that we will do either the blue line if we're smart (mostly just climate refugees), and the grey line if we're dumb (loooots of climate refugees and probably a bunch of famines and wars). Every person, every family, every town, city, village, state, and country, every company, every non-profit, every board of every thing, needs to be putting their "how we get to zero by 20X0" plan in writing NOW.