The target of staying under 1,5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average temperature within the century was set less than 10 years ago. It was considered ambitious but possible back then, and so many world leaders and governments agreeing to it in the Paris climate accord of 2015, was considered a major political achievement.
However, there have been uncountable political setbacks since. Aside from Donald Trump’s two election wins and subsequent horror shows, we’ve gone through a pandemic that brought insane financial, monetary politics and crushing inflation, the Ukraine war and the advent of power hungry AI (that totally will be good for something and ain’t no god dammed bubble, seriously stop calling it a bubble, bro, it’s the future). All of which has reduced climate change to a niche topic that don’t hold any sway over political elections in the rich countries responsible for the brunt of greenhouse gas emissions (directly or indirectly).
Less than 10 years ago we thought it would be possible to stay below that target over the coming 85 years. Less than 10 years later that target is declared dead by the secretary general of the UN… Was it realistic then? Well, a lot of planning and climate policy has involved exceeding 1,5 degrees and then using massive deployments of imaginary future technologies to bring the climate back. Not exactly prudent reasoning.
Some countries are still sticking to their plans, kinda. Norway are making headways installing carbon capture technology on their off-shore oil rigs (!!!) so that they can keep drilling for fossil fuels with a smaller impact on their own reported national emissions.
Not taking away from your larger point but mostly not inflation but profit taking. Early in COVID corporations holding functional monopolies learned demand was inelastic and commenced to price gouge.
Haven’t we missed it like 10 years ago?
The target of staying under 1,5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average temperature within the century was set less than 10 years ago. It was considered ambitious but possible back then, and so many world leaders and governments agreeing to it in the Paris climate accord of 2015, was considered a major political achievement.
However, there have been uncountable political setbacks since. Aside from Donald Trump’s two election wins and subsequent horror shows, we’ve gone through a pandemic that brought insane financial, monetary politics and crushing inflation, the Ukraine war and the advent of power hungry AI (that totally will be good for something and ain’t no god dammed bubble, seriously stop calling it a bubble, bro, it’s the future). All of which has reduced climate change to a niche topic that don’t hold any sway over political elections in the rich countries responsible for the brunt of greenhouse gas emissions (directly or indirectly).
Less than 10 years ago we thought it would be possible to stay below that target over the coming 85 years. Less than 10 years later that target is declared dead by the secretary general of the UN… Was it realistic then? Well, a lot of planning and climate policy has involved exceeding 1,5 degrees and then using massive deployments of imaginary future technologies to bring the climate back. Not exactly prudent reasoning.
Some countries are still sticking to their plans, kinda. Norway are making headways installing carbon capture technology on their off-shore oil rigs (!!!) so that they can keep drilling for fossil fuels with a smaller impact on their own reported national emissions.
Not taking away from your larger point but mostly not inflation but profit taking. Early in COVID corporations holding functional monopolies learned demand was inelastic and commenced to price gouge.
Yes, but we’re still missing now too.
Ah, good point. Let’s see if we unmiss it in 2035.
At this point it’s a matter of how bad.
Yes, but let’s not forget that 1,5 degrees C was considered really bad to begin with.
no, rhetoric only meant to motivate by fear turnt around into demotivation: helplessness.
look up Climate Clock to see the exact year.