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> We pretty much need to be global carbon negative by 2030 to have a fighting chance. I have a feeling being all radical and alarmist about it doesn’t achieve

• mywittyname 5y ago
  Presenting the facts as they are understood is not alarmist. There are many prominent climate scientists who feel the evidence implies that carbon neutrality by 2030 is the only way to prevent the effects of global warming from hitting a positive feedback loop that can't be stopped. Look how quickly climate change has escalated in even the past five years. What's going to happen when temperatures in the American breadbasket hit the temperatures we are seeing in the west coast, but sustain them throughout the growing season? What if that happens by 2024? We really need to be prepared for the fact that nature might force our hand on a much shorter timeline than 2030. Imagine the reaction you'd have if you could tell your 2016-self about how the past year has been. Now imagine we continue on the same course for the next five years.