I really enjoyed this goofy meme from the solarpunk memes community 🥹
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Preventing any climate change was never really an option. The climate is going to change, it already has. The goal has always been to limit the change as much as possible to keep it within the most stable and least harmful range possible. It was decided that limiting warming to 1.5C was our optimum target. We will not meet that target.
So, the best case scenario is no longer on the table, but we can still limit warming, and the harm caused by rapid, anthropogenic climate change as much as possible. Every degree, every tenth of a degree of warming that we are able to prevent will reduce harm. Therefore, we should still be working diligently to reduce human GHG emissions to net zero as quickly as possible, even if we will not be able to meet the Paris climate goals.
Make no mistake, however, it's going to be bad. Even at 1.5C it was going to be bad, it would have just been the most manageable level of bad that we felt was achievable. I'm all for hope and optimism but we need to understand that bad things are coming so that we can adequately prepare and try to mitigate the impacts as much as possible. Just how bad things get depends on what we do, and by "we" I mean all of humanity.
But while there is a floor for how bad things will be, there's also a ceiling. I think the chances of near term human extinction or the total, permanent collapse of human civilization are essentially zero. Climate change isn't going to bring on the apocalypse.
But climate change is the first existencial crisis humanity has faced!!
Besides WW2...
And nuclear proliferation...
And the hole in the ozone...
And Industrial revolution pollution...
And overpopulation...
And leaded gasoline...
I think this one will be harder. Confronting it requires completely changing our ways of life, and massively scaling back which is something monied interests REALLY do not wanna do, but we can still overcome.
It will be hard. And I wanna fight to do it anyway god damnit.
Correct!
I don't know if necessarily harder than the others but none of them were easy
Still you may be right on that point, too
We keep fighting regardless. Only one way to find out how tall that mountain is- we make it to the top and look back down at how far we've come
Have a good day my friend!
I know the hole in the ozone later specifically was solved by a unified concerted effort to address the problem that caused it. I didn't know the details, but I assume leaded gasoline was the same.
I am not presently seeing that kind of deliberate unity on climate change.
The hole is 8.5 million miles^2.
I wouldn't consider that "solved".
I will consider the hole to be solved when it is closed—which will be decades still.
I'll consider "consistent effective progress along a long recovery route" close enough to "solved" for this particular conversation.
We saw a problem, took action, and the situation has improved since we took action.
Im totally doomer but I will try till my last breath. For me its the elevator thats crashing to the ground and I am going to try and jump last minute regardless of the physics of it all.
We're gonna give it everything we got, and if we fail we know we did everything we could 🫂
Keep fighting my friend
Exactly. Im going down knowing I went down not that I took a dive.
I appreciate you, and everyone else who does the same
I love it
I'm glad! 😊
Christopher Walkin is an ascended being, one does not simply intimidate him.
Hell yeah, miss me with that hopeless shit
Perfect match of images to theme.
Is the image really low res?
It doesn't seem that low res for me, but I'm on my phone 🤷♂️
If you're also on mobile, maybe it's your client? Perhaps it doesn't like crossposts?
I just checked by login into another instance. It seems that my instance screwed up after the last upgrade. Every image is postage sized.
Well that's not super helpful 😅 hope they're able to get it fixed, that sounds like a pain
Ye bwoy keep going we got this. Never too late to try and achieve