> Technology won’t progress at the rate needed to prevent the worst of the climate disaster, Thing is, it already did. RCP8.5 is not going to happen, because i

> Technology won’t progress at the rate needed to prevent the worst of the climate disaster, Thing is, it already did. RCP8.5 is not going to happen, because it overestimated China's current-day coal usage by 500%. Meanwhile events like the COVID pandemic and Russian invasion ultimately prevented the world from breaking the 2019 CO2 emissions record of 40.9Gt. I'm not saying we should sit back and relax, but perhaps it's not all doom and gloom.