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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Idk what all the world leaders have & haven't done, but I know we've made great progress in green technology. Compared to 2009, we're poised to more than double the efficiency of solar panels & the installation price per watt has fallen from $8.50 to $2.77. Bigger, better, better understood...and also cheaper.

This is what you want to see if you want the whole world adopting renewable energy sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay. We still need to do a lot more. The science is clear that this is the make or break decade. Either we severely curtail emissions now or we break the 1.5C/3F limit for the bad scenarios to happen.

And everything has happened faster than predicted so any millennials thinking this isn't going to really effect their life is deluding themselves. It's just going to hit while we have silver hair. We'll all be hungry, thirsty, and trying to figure out several billion refugees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been hearing "it's make or break right now" for 20 years. I'm pretty sure we were absolutely screwed a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yes well at first we wanted to stop any increase. So there was a deadline for that. Then we wanted to cap it and the earlier we act the better it is. Now we've realized that at 1.5C some nasty chain reactions kick in and we'd really like to avoid that. However if you want to be reductionist about it then yes the time to act was when we learned the basics of this problem in the 1800's.

But the next best time is now. It just gets worse the longer we wait until at some point the planet hands us an eviction notice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who is the "we" in your comment? This is an international site

[–] sukhmel 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We = humanity? This is a humans' site

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog!

[–] sukhmel 1 points 9 months ago

With all those distant jobs it's now easier than ever to earn a living when you've accidentally turned into an animal during an obscure scientific experiment