1.5°C is a symbolic boundary. It was agreed to not be broken in the Paris agreement in 2016. Not even ten years later, it is broken for the eigth consecutive month and in the yearly average. It will be broken permanently in 5-10 years. It is a symbolic boundary because it is an arbitrary number and every tenth of a degree matters. We still need to support climat action even if it is broken. But it is also a symbol of political incompetency and fossil fuel malice.
Source article: https://climate.copernicus.eu/warmest-february-record-9th-consecutive-warmest-month
Posting and liking memes is great, but real change comes from actions. If you are as concerned as we are about climate change, please consider joining or supporting climate activists near you. Here are some good starting points for anyone interested:
While protesting is valid too, it's not much more "action" then making and liking memes. Both a merely expressing your inability to take actual action, because you lack immediate power to act ASAP.
Real actions would be:
- Forbidding coal, oil and gas,
- Buying all coal, oil and gas companies and shutting them down or
- Making all coal, oil and gas companies unable to operate by some sort of continous destruction.
All of which you are unable to do, hence you protest to convince people who have the power to take action.
Well, there are things done, but not enough and not by many enough and many actions, like cutting down on travel, consumption and beef, are seen as undesirable.
I know there is a common view that it doesn't matter what the common man does, that it's the corpos och governments that hold all the power, but that isn't entirely correct. Governments and corporations have power and need to be influenced by actions and, when it gets rolling bandwagoning, but the decisions of the billions of people have consequences to. Not everybody has a choice, nor means, but some (most on these boards?) of us have in some capacity and we need to consider how we can act in accordance.
And dont critice something for being inadequate. The next iteration will be better. That's how we get the ball rolling. Waiting for the perfect solution will leave us incapable of action.
There's no stopping this warming. You have to get ALL governments and corporations on board to spend an ungodly amount. There's going to be cheaters and our slaps on the wrist aren't going to save us. Until we see the devastation in our literal back yard, we'll sleep.
We just need another supervolcano eruption to offset the global temperature increase. Does throwing a nuke into an active volcano work?
If you have nukes you don't need a volcano, just nuking the ground will throw up enough dust.
Volcanos often release CO2, only some ground does.Volcanic winter might be a bit more preferable than nuclear winter.
Hey is that you Trump?
I asked about this, and the answer is basically that "we're 99% sure 1.5C is dead; we won't be 100% until El Niño is over".
The amount of people not understanding climate timespans, models and pathways is too damn high.
