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Agreed, but magnitude doesn't matter when the climate crisis is a binary outcome. Either we stop it or we don't. Neither candidate is willing to take the action needed to treat the climate crisis like the existential threat that it is.
The climate crisis is an ongoing gradient of "this is bad" to "humans are extinct" and every tenth of a degree we can prevent is worthwhile.
We don't prevent degrees though. The temperature is steadily increasing. At best, we delay degrees.
Unless we actually stop increasing carbon emissions (which we aren't doing right now), we're fucked.
Marginal gains add up to the changes we need. All or nothing thinking will kill us all.
As opposed to the level of change Biden is willing to accomplish which... will still kill us all.
You mean like this piece of legislation he pushed through, which is basically the first major bill in the US which addresses climate change? https://earthjustice.org/brief/2022/what-the-inflation-reduction-act-means-for-climate
Pretty sure it's not a binary outcome. We already have warming at levels that is detrimental, and we're not going to stop it. All we have left is mitigating actions.
But it's not a binary "we're fucked" or "we're fine", it's an ever worsening gradient of terrible conditions. Even within that, how many people get the brunt of it depends on the extent of the damage.