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It's promising to see some other areas more than the cars trying to use electric vehicles. I hope we can reach a 100% electric (and clean generation) before it'

• epistasis 7y ago
  It's already "too late" in the sense that stopping carbon emissions won't be enough to prevent catastrophic change. It's just now that in addiction to stopping, we need to go negative and start sequestering carbon. This is a far more expensive path than if we had decarbonized sooner. For detailed info from real scientists rather than an internet rando, see IPCC SR 1.5, in particular figure 2.5: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/#cid_457 https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/#cid_457 And if you have kids or care about fairness to future generations, this paper should spur you into action: Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/ https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/