Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

    • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Because we waste money already?

      We have an oversaturated military budget to obtain oil from third world countries, we could start there?

      How about we stop giving debt to China? We owe them $37 trillion already, there isn’t even that many USD on the planet lol.

      The government doesn’t “waste money” because money means nothing to the government, money is a tool used by the government to get the people to do things the government wants. They can and will print money as needed, which doesn’t decrease the value of the USD as FIAT’s value is determined by a countries power in terms of trade, politics, and military strength.

        • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Nor does it stop coal from being a ridiculously destructive form of power generation.

          I can go tit for tat with this all day. I don’t give a shit about money, money means fuck all when we’re living in an inhospitable hellhole 50 years from now.

          I never said that they’d do it and of course they wouldn’t, but that it would be the best for us as a species. Instead we will hold onto our fossil fuels until we either destroy the planet or get so low that we decide to kill each other for it.