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Researchers and analysts tend to agree humanity already blew it. We waited way too long to start mitigation practices and what little we’ve done has already sta
by jsbisviewtiful 2y ago
Researchers and analysts tend to agree humanity already blew it. We waited way too long to start mitigation practices and what little we’ve done has already started to be rolled back. Even if we restarted efforts it would take too long to ramp up given the snowball effect already in play. We are cooked.
- jupp0r 2y agoThis ironically applies both to climate change and being a decade too late to react to Russia's expansionist actions.
- alwa 2y agoSo… maybe, but to my mind counterfactuals don’t really help clarify thinking about this kind of thing. The range of futures available to us today doesn’t really depend too much on alternate futures that may have been available had we done things differently in the past. I understand the political necessity of setting a concrete 1.5 degC warming target and messaging it as an all-or-nothing kind of goal, but “we missed it” isn’t an absolute. It’s not the line between “hellfire and brimstone” and “salvation”: there’s still a range of outcomes and behavior still matters. The fatalism strikes me as counterproductive and paralyzing: people can and will continue to try to survive, even if there are wildfires now, or hurricanes, or heat waves, or worse. Better, it seems to me, to focus on what actually is changing, how people are responding, and how to mitigate and adapt.
- jsbisviewtiful 2y agoIt's okay to have a differing opinion, but ultimately the oceans are warming much faster than simulations created by experts predicted. The runaway greenhouse effect has always been front and center of the "oh no" part of humanity warming the planet and so far it appears "runaway warming" describes the state of the ocean - which is very not good.