The IPCC 6 Third Assessment is out. It's not good news.
Christiana Figueres is from Costa Rica, a nation that is doing more to address its carbon emissions. She was deeply involved in the negotiations leading to the Paris Climate Accords of 2015. Speaking with“I don’t have words to explain. “Concerning” is not enough. This is frankly a terrifying report. It’s not really about megatons. It is fundamentally about the long term well being of the entire web of life on this planet.
“It was quite foreseeable that the report would underline, yet again, that we are not doing enough, neither in terms of scale or speed. This decade continues to be the decisive decade to have half a chance to close the warming gap. We are far from being below 2° C, let alone 1.5° C. Beyond that, adaptation would be in serious question. It could trigger the point beyond which ecosystems will simply transform irreversibly.
“I’m lacking words for this. It’s beyond immoral. It’s suicidal. What is suicidal is our inability to take the decisions and enact the behavioral changes that we perfectly well can in order to align our planet with the Paris Agreement. That’s the problem. There is nothing new that any report can tell us about what we should be doing. The gap that we identified years ago is not closing; in fact, it’s enlarging. That’s the news. It’s tragic.
The race is on to drill for more oil and gas and dig more coal as a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine because heaven forfend that we alter our lifestyle one iota to help slow down the climate change juggernaut. Americans in particular are wringing their hands in horror now that it costs well north of a hundred bucks to fill the gas tanks of their Suburbans and Stupid Duty pickup trucks. They are like Slim Pickens riding the bomb down to the ground at the end of Dr.
Nope. Not in this lifetime and not in this world. We are having too much fun and are drunk on the power that burning fossil fuels gives us. We won’t stop any more than an alcoholic or junkie will give up booze or drugs. The future is too damn scary to face sober, so let it rip and let God pick up the pieces.
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