No, we are past that point. A gradual reduction in CO2 levels is not enough any more. If you want to save billions of lives we need to cut CO2 production hard and right now. Since that is never going to happen you happy go lucky scenario becomes impossible. In any realistic climate scenario humanity is already fucked, it’s only matter of how much exactly.
i mean, i’m not sure where you live but we’re seeing sizeable towns [populations <10,000] getting eaten by fire on my side of the continent (pacific west coast, north america [i’m in california. it’s been a mild year so far but fire season officially started two weeks ago in my town. so far only three fires worth mentioning!]) and before you start on any “need to rake your forest or manage it better or let it burn”, people been living there for 400 years if not longer at the one close to me that burned a few seasons back. much longer at the one with 200,000 people that half burned a few more seasons back. kindly leave that victim blamey bullshit at the door.
agreed, we’re already fucked. the question now is how fucked and whether we’ll be around when the planet recovers.
No, we are past that point. A gradual reduction in CO2 levels is not enough any more. If you want to save billions of lives we need to cut CO2 production hard and right now. Since that is never going to happen you happy go lucky scenario becomes impossible. In any realistic climate scenario humanity is already fucked, it’s only matter of how much exactly.
i mean, i’m not sure where you live but we’re seeing sizeable towns [populations <10,000] getting eaten by fire on my side of the continent (pacific west coast, north america [i’m in california. it’s been a mild year so far but fire season officially started two weeks ago in my town. so far only three fires worth mentioning!]) and before you start on any “need to rake your forest or manage it better or let it burn”, people been living there for 400 years if not longer at the one close to me that burned a few seasons back. much longer at the one with 200,000 people that half burned a few more seasons back. kindly leave that victim blamey bullshit at the door.
agreed, we’re already fucked. the question now is how fucked and whether we’ll be around when the planet recovers.