"Four years ago, a UN report identified the need to decrease carbon emissions by 7% a year until 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate breakdown. They are still rising, and the need now is for an annual reduction of at least 10%."
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Climate Justice SocialBread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social)I'm sometimes accused of fear-mongering or doomism, focusing only on the bad news happening all around us and never pointing at the positives. Most of my regular followers will know that's not really true, that I often highlight articles about the kinds of transformative changes that if made would carry us into a cleaner, safer, happier future.
Here is one I just read that sort of, at least, offers some "reasons for hope"...
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The future really does look grim. A world of devastating weather events, unliveable cities, gross food shortages, mass migration, and global marginalisation beckons.
We are heading for a global disaster at a level frequently warned of but even more frequently ignored – whether by politicians, business leaders, or others – while the fossil fuel industries and countries that exploit oil, gas, and coal continue to argue that the problem is grossly exaggerated.
The task of avoiding this dystopic future is huge. Four years ago, a UN report identified the need to decrease carbon emissions by 7% a year until 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate breakdown. They are still rising, and the need now is for an annual reduction of at least 10%.
It is a predicament that will require a third societal transition. The first was the farming revolution over several thousand years and the second was the industrial revolution, which started close to four centuries ago and is still under way. The third will be learning to live within the limits set by the capacity of the world’s ecosystem to handle human activity, initially by preventing climate breakdown, which must be achieved in mere decades.
There are some signs of hope.
Rapid and radical decarbonisation is possible and is starting to happen on a near-global scale. But it must proceed very much faster. Global net zero needs to be achieved by 2040, not 2050, and that means that richer states must aim for net zero by 2035 while providing funding to speed up the process right across the Global South. It is a huge task but that is the way to prevent climate breakdown.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-crisis-future-wildfires-el-nino-reasons-for-hope-global-warming/
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