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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

There is A LOT of money to be made in climate change. What you don't hear in the news cycle is that we've made extensive reductions in all forms of pollution, but especially air pollution. We have slowed the rate of global warming as a result. Now big money "green" corporations don't want you to know that. Many on here will point to China using more coal or that our efforts are not enough. Fact is that the change is occurring and we are making an impact and need to keep that trend going, but know that the majority of the data that is published on the long term forecast is using 1970s data and not 2023 data to skew the impact as being worse and more fearsome. All the 'were past the tipping point' and such are using the old data. Things are better than that, but not to the point we need for major recovering.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reduction isn’t enough. We’ve only been successful in exporting our pollution to places like China. We actually haven’t reduced anything because of that fact. We may have reduced pollution here but only at a cost of increasing it some where else.

With that said co2 emissions today are the highest they’ve ever been. We haven’t slowed anything. Climate change is increasing at an exponential rate. It’s going to keep increasing until we can figure out how to eliminate emissions and reduce what is already in the atmosphere.

Reality is no matter what reductions we take here the overall emissions in the world is still going up.

Hate to say it but it’s a little too late. By the time we figure out how to eliminate emissions the world will have burnt to a crisp. The time for aggressive changes was 50 years ago. We’ve already passed the temperature at which run away climate change is possible.

It’s quite clear our leaders decided to run it all into the ground instead of making an effort to change our way of life.

[-] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago
[-] Mannimarco@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Facts are facts, it is to little too late, call me a doomer all you want, we are fucked

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