It's sad to see people making jokes about this. The message is rather clear. The amount of times I've said this exact thing and gotten down voted before is depressing. People seem to want to ignore the issue. If climate change is as bad as predicted, it will affect everyone, and when it does, it will be too late to reverse it, we can only make it less bad.

[–] psud@aussie.zone -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The planet will be fine. It might suck for humans for a while (especially bad for poor people), but we will succeed in bringing carbon levels back to whatever is best for us (somewhere between pre-industrial and a hundred years ago, I suppose)

Right now the cheapest electricity is renewable. We are making inroads into electrifying transport and running planes and ships on renewable energy. There is money being pumped into research to find low carbon ways of making steel and concrete.

Once electricity is clean and transport is clean we're a long way towards cleaning up industry. Electricity, transport, and industry are the two biggest wedges in the emissions pie chart

There are clear paths to make agriculture cleaner through renewable fertilisers and treatments for ruminants' methane emissions (which oxidises the methane to CO2 (which is carbon neutral unless their feed was fertilised with fossil carbon))

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We are well underway in the 6th mass extinction. You dont know what you're talking abojt.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The typo indicates you typed that in a huff and a hurry. Please watch the videos I linked. My optimism isn't completely misplaced.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I don't need to educate myself. I live with someone who does climate adaptation research. Hell, we are ignoring the more important issue right now which is ecological collapse. Arguably that's going to screw us way more than the changes in weather that are coming.

And I've read the IPCC reports compiled by scientists, I don't need to watch youtube videos on the subject.

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