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> If we stopped emitting carbon immediately, warming would halt (not reverse but halt) within a few decades Again it comes down to caring about decades in the

> If we stopped emitting carbon immediately, warming would halt (not reverse but halt) within a few decades Again it comes down to caring about decades in the future. Look at the age of people who control everything. There are very few people under forty so if we take “a few decades” to mean forty years even people in their thirties are going to be near end of life before we see any benefit. For the majority of people in positions of power they are in their fifties, sixties or seventies. They just don’t care about forty years+ in the future. They say they care for their grandchildren’s futures but they clearly don’t as they never take strong action. They act as if pathetic targets will make a difference when what we need is extreme reductions.

CarelessExpert 5y ago
That's a different argument. You're telling me why we won't make change, whereas previously you were claiming there's no point in making any change in the first place because we're already "fucked". And I happen to agree with you on this point. We can do something to change our future and we can start today. But I'm quite sure we won't, for the reasons you cite and many more besides, including the persistent myth that we're already screwed and there's no point in trying. And then we have folks like BackBlast who, in the desire to resist any and all necessary change, seem to have, over the last 20 years as the evidence has become undeniable, switched from climate change denial to climate change dismissiveness to now climate change acceptance. It's deeply disheartening and entirely predictable.