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> "We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over," said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP, who produced the study. > "Only a ro
by karaterobot 4y ago
> "We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over," said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP, who produced the study.
> "Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster," she said.
I don't see that happening, and my guess is neither do they. Plan C needs to be a massive geoengineering project that would have seemed crazy even ten years ago, may worry some people as irresponsible even now. The nightmare scenario is that we can't even do that in time, because we're too busy arguing about it.
- yamtaddle 4y agoYeah, we took one major fossil fuel producing country out of part of the global economy and look at the pain that caused in "the West". This kind of drastic, quick climate action would have even stronger effects on the energy markets in the short term, though the higher prices would also encourage faster renewable deployment so the damage would at least be tempered after some time (years, probably). Of course the alternative that skips the trashing-the-economy part is more and larger government spending on renewable deployment to achieve a switchover on a similar timescale, but that's super-unpopular for a lot of voters.