We’ve been cooked since we’ve depended on capitalists to do the right thing.
It was never going to happen.
Member 1.5 or bust?
We bust. Bad.
Global pledges and targets, if reached leave us with 2.1C. That was before the US elected Trump again, which means not pledges and commitments from them. Also obviously pledges and targets have to be reached and that gave us 2.7C. That again was before Trump was elected again and the massive problems the second largest emitter being activly hostile to climate action brings. So it will not just be the US, Trump has already anounced that he is working to sell more US oil and gas, which means making other countries emit more.
So yeah he is probably right. It can be changed, but that is going to a bloody hard journey.
I usually like TheGuardian but doomer clickbait like this isn’t helping at all. Yeah it’s looking grim right now, so let’s focus on solutions and change that’s already happening, instead of disencouraging people who care. People who don’t will not after reading this.
What’s clickbait about it? The guy is as renowned in his field as it suggests, and he did say exactly that.
There’s no line at which our failure means we should give up. 4C is better than 5C, 5C is better than 6C and so on
