• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      3 months ago

      As in “We haven’t cut emissions to zero yet.” We can, and will. It’s a question of whether we do it quickly enough to preserve a civilization-supporting climate.

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        Likely not. The next years will be hell. Then, after 10 years or so - maybe sooner -, 2024 will be remembered as one of the more pleasant years with still bearable temperatures and comparably few catastrophes. We even still had affordable coffee and olive oil.

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        We should probably start with reducing the rate of increase first. Then talk about reducing emissions per year. As for zero emissions, I fail to see how we have a civilization of any sort without some emissions. Maybe that’s the point. Was “Net Zero” a hidden word for collapse all along?

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            3 months ago

            That’s a really hopeful reading of that chart. What I see in that chart is that even a year or two of falling emissions could quickly be wiped away. Just look at 2022.

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              3 months ago

              It’s a bit more than that; there are policies in place which make Chinese emissions likely to slowly drop from here on out

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        3 months ago

        Yes. But it makes the second sentence make more sense.

        And for the answer, the Jurassic Park “see, nobody cares” meme would fit in well.

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      Like I understand what they are trying to say, but yeah really ticks me off when people say “ever” when they mean “yet”