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In non-surprising breaking news - we're fucked.

"The numbers paint a clear picture," the U.N. said. "To keep emissions below the critical 1.5-degree target set in Paris in 2015, countries must cut emissions by 42 percent overall by 2030 and achieve a 57 percent reduction by 2035."

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[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

Please remember that the Covid lockdowns reduced the global carbon emissions by less than 10%

In order to reach the climate goals, we will have to quadruple that level of downsizing and maintain it, indefinitely, within six years.

yeah nobody's doing shit lmao the ruling class is betting it all on either geoengineering or nuclear war

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

We'd essentially have had to turn off industrial society, all of it, a decade ago to actually accomplish anything like stopping it.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

And the longer we wait, the more drastic the fix is going to be. We could have scaled back car usage and manufacturing 25 years ago in favor of building more trains (for example). But since we didn't do that, the next solution is to completely eliminate the automobile industry. And if we put that off (who am I kidding? Of course we're not gonna do anything), the next steps will be things like eliminating motorized transportation entirely (relying on bikes instead).

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Barbarism it is

[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

I remember back in 2018 that there was this big climate report that said we had 10 years left or else climate disaster would be inevitable. I remember because I was dooming over it hard.

But now, 6 years later, the goalpost shifted to 2035? Again the "in 10 years" thing?

This feels like it's trying to sell people hopium on something that can no longer be fixed. Make us think we have some arbitrary deadline so we'll remain calm.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

This feels like it's trying to sell people hopium on something that can no longer be fixed.

It also keeps feeding into the fascist frenzy that "climate change is a hoax, they've been saying the world will end since the 70s"

And... that's not at all what the science said ever.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

Is it really being a "doomer" if fucking nothing has been done for decades about this and so-called "pledges" from the corpos burning the planet down were always bullshit and are now officially being abandoned?

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Sometimes realism is called doomer

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Yes, because "doomer", conceptually, is a coping mechanism used by people who cannot accept the reality of the horror that is coming down on us and instead of trying to cope with it and come out the other side ready to do whatever is possible to mitigate the harm they reject reality entirely.

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

I think we ought to start calling the “back to normal” people doomers tbh. they ain’t lookin up.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Headline's kinda misleading tbh, I think the 42% in 6 years from 2024-2030 is more drastic than the 13% from 2030-2035.

Love to live in a country where even pathetic half-measures aren't on the table. Death to America, Death to Capitalism, Death to the "West".

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

glasses-off "global climate disaster inevitable if..."

glasses-on "global climate disaster inevitable"

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Cut emissions? What if, instead, I burn down the rainforest to generate booba pics?

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What if, instead, I burn down the rainforest to generate booba pics?

berdly-actually those rain forests are being burned down primarily to power "AI" driven malware, spyware, and to expand the techbro panopticon!

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Ah, but did you consider that it doesn't affect me personally right now? Far left owned! :smuglord:

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

It's surreal seeing people still planning for a treat based future, getting a good career to buy a big house and doing all the consumer shit. Just grinding and side hustling until the very end.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

As far as I know we've only got 6 years left, but hey happy to be wrong

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Definitely not happening with ww3 starting

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago
[-] LigOleTiberal@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

"Global climate disaster inevitable" fixed that headline for ya

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