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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're basically being bailed out by luck. Renewable electricity has gotten cheap; it didn't have to. If that hadn't of happened we'd probably be doing business as usual and accelerating into catastrophe.

[โ€“] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have bad news for you: We're still accelerating into catastrophe, just not quite as fast as we otherwise would've been. We need to keep trying of course, but we still have a very long way to go before we can even think about considering ourselves in the clear.