Really appreciate this channel’s effort on trying to dispel doomism.

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
    9·
    23 hours ago

    Doomism sure is bad. It’s even worse than us emitting the most co2 ever last year. Stay positive folks!

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      42·
      21 hours ago

      This is disingenuous. To lower atmospheric co2 we need to actively absorb co2 out from the atmosphere while the output of co2 is lower than the absorption. So to even see a progress on this chart we need to first achieve net zero.

      • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 hours ago

        I think I need to politely disagree with you on this point.

        If co2 emissions were slowing at a meaningful rate, we should be able to see the upward trajectory start leveling off. What we DO see is almost no change in the trajectory of the chart, indicating that current carbon emitters haven’t cut back enough to matter, if at all.

        I’m not suggesting that no changes on that line means no “progress”, but one could argue that its not meaningful progress if we aren’t seeing any changes in that trend.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 hours ago

        No, we would see an infection point on this chat if we were to make progress, even if we’re not at net zero. The chart would at least be increasing at a decreasing rate, as opposed to the current trajectory increasing at a steady or even increasing rate.

  • brickloveEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    So we’ll have green energy but capitalism will be as strong as ever. A solar dystopia. At least there will be a future for us to be shadowrunners in.

  • YungOnions@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 hours ago

    Just watched this video myself last night. Really good. His other video on positive tipping points is worth a watch to.

    • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      If we suddenly decide to stop spewing record amounts of greenhouse gases then we might have a small chance… But that needs to be a quick decline which we have simply not seen.

      • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
        411·
        1 day ago

        It’s not happening. We fly more planes than ever, and we send more container ships around the world than ever. Besides those, CO2 is just one greenhouse gas. Methane is another major contributor to the greenhouse effect.

        Whether we prevent further warming is even kind of a moot point now. We’ve already got a certain

        Then there’s loss of ice cover, which creates a feedback loop of further absorption of sunlight (heat).

        We’re already living in the world created by climate change, and it’s just getting started. It’s clear that our built environment is not prepared for it at all. Who knew that some of the earliest climate refugees in the US would be homeowners who couldn’t get insurance?

        The video above gives false hope. With extreme and increasingly unpredictable weather, it’s only a matter of time until we get a major crop failure. How many of those can the system absorb?

        Don’t forget, all the stuff in the video is being implemented basically to prolong the happy motoring lifestyle. That’s awful for the environment even if it’s EVs