r/ClimateShitposting

After roughly 60 years of warnings, conferences, pledges, spin, and climate theater, the atmosphere has remained stubbornly unimpressed.

The article at the link below makes a strong argument. Humanity had decades to reduce fossil fuel use gradually, intelligently, and with far less suffering. That window was wasted. Now the cuts needed to truly get climate change under control are so large, so rapid, and so politically painful that most governments remain structurally unlikely to do what is required in time to make a difference.

That means the real question is no longer whether climate change will become severe. It already is. The real question is how far warming will run before governments stop pretending that speeches, targets, and minor reforms count as “solving” a civilization-scale emergency.

Because global leaders delayed so long, humanity is now far more likely to move through 2°C of warming and then continue toward 3°C and 4°C, with even higher outcomes possible, before effective fossil fuel reduction programs are finally implemented at the scale required by the laws of physics. By the time many governments act seriously, they may no longer be trying to prevent catastrophe. They may be trying to slow it, triage it, and salvage what is left. See https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/why_humanity_is_still_heading_toward_2_c_3_c_and_4_c_global_warming_before_governments_finally_act