The reporting on climate change continues to be abysmal. The two most salient facts: that there is a huge time lag between emissions and warming, and that total warming will depend on the developing world—are completely absent from the "climate emergency" framing. But sure, NFTs.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1384216535460311051 …
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One of the many lessons of covid that got ignored was that even with a radical shutdown of the world economy, we could not get to zero emissions, let alone the negative emissions we'll need to keep the earth recognizably the same. But it's still portrayed as a lifestyle choice
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Are you hoping for a deus ex machina technological fix, or that the US steps up as Global Carbon Cop and enforces some kind of cap-and-trade or similar economic solution?
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I expect neither; I think things will just get really toasty.
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That's not nihilism, it's being realistic.
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